Species Sertorius tepperi Goding, 1903

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• Sertorius tepperi Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [22].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNM 2 ♀ (coll.: Lea), Bunbury, Western Australia.

 

Introduction

This species was regarded as being incertae sedis by Evans (1966). It is based on two females from southwestern Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head black, punctured, triangular, apex produced strongly backward; ocelli on a line with superior border of eyes and equidistant from them and from each other. Prothorax piceous brown, base black, punctured, furnished with a median percurrent carina, and armed on each side, above lateral angles, with a short, stout, triquetrous, acuminate horn turned upward, very lightly outward, and strongly forward, the upper surface marked with two or three small carina near the front edge, the posterior edge of each horn continued for some distance on the posterior process as a carina, parallel to the median carina; posterior process very broad and convex at base, gradually narrowed to the middle, thereafter slender and acuminate, reaching tips of tegmina. Tegmina smoky yellow, basal fourth piceous, punctured and opaque, the remainder transparent, veins ferruginous and thick. Body below black; tibiae and tarsi lighter. Long. ♀ 6; lat. 2 mm.; incl. lat. corn. 3 mm. (Goding 1903).

 

Diagnosis References

Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [22]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-May-2012		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)