Species Dardus abbreviatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1838)

Dardus abbreviatus (Guérin-Méneville)

© Copyright Murray Fletcher. Orange Agricultural Institute.

Dardus abbreviatus (Guérin-Méneville)

© Copyright Murray Fletcher. Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurybrachys abbreviatus Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1838. Crustacés, arachnides et insectes. pp. 180-193 in Guérin-Méneville F.E. (ed.). Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du roi sur la corvette de sa majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825 par M.L.I. Duperry. Paris : Arthus Betrand, Libraire Vol. 2 [193].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Australia.
• Eurybrachys laeta White, A. 1845. Descriptions and figures of four new species of Australian insects. pp. 412–413 in Eyer, E.J. Appendix. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1; sent by the colonists of South Australia, with the sanction and support of the Government: including an account of the manners and customs of the aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans [413].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Australia.
• Eurybrachys rufiventris Stål, C. 1855. Nya Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 12: 181-192 [191].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Australia.

Introduction

The identities of the various species of Dardus need to be determined by examination of the type material. The current location of the material on which the three names synonymised as D. abbreviatus (Guérin-Méneville) is unknown. No precise locality was given for any of the three names but Stål (1859) and Kirkaldy (1906) both gave Sydney, New South Wales, and Hacker (1924) listed the species from Acacia in the Brisbane, Queensland, area. It is probable that this is the common species of the genus on wattles along the eastern coastline of Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stål, C. 1862. Synonymiska och systematiska anteckningar öfver Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 19: 479-504 [488] (synonymy of Eurybrachys laeta and E. rufiventris)

Generic Combinations

• Dardus abbreviatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1838). — Stål, C. 1859. Hemiptera. Species novas descripsit. Kongliga Svenska fregatten Eugenies Resa omkring jorden under befäl af C.A. Virgin åren 1851-1853 (Zoologi) 4: 219-298 [280].

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Niger, tegminum macula transversa costali ante medium, interdum valde minuta, albida; abdomine pedibusque posticis rufescentibus, pedibus anterioribus parce testaceo-maculatis. ♂ ♀ Long. 6, lat. 4 millim. (Stål 1859 as Dardus rufiventris)

Diagnosis References

Stål, C. 1859. Hemiptera. Species novas descripsit. Kongliga Svenska fregatten Eugenies Resa omkring jorden under befäl af C.A. Virgin åren 1851-1853 (Zoologi) 4: 219-298 [281]

General References

Hacker, H. 1924. Field notes on Platybrachys &c (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(1): 37-42 [40]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [446]

Stål, C. 1859. Hemiptera. Species novas descripsit. Kongliga Svenska fregatten Eugenies Resa omkring jorden under befäl af C.A. Virgin åren 1851-1853 (Zoologi) 4: 219-298 [280]