Froghoppers (Family Cercopidae)
Sugarcane froghopper
Euryaulax carnifex (Fabricius)
The froghoppers are not well represented in Australia, although there are some distinctive species both in size and colour. The most common and widespread species is Petyllis deprivata, a medium sized brown species covered with golden hairs, while the orange and black Euryaulax carnifex is common in Northern Australia. There are no true cercopids in New Zealand.
The fauna from New Guinea and eastern Indonesia is very rich with a number of speciose genera of large colourful insects. Only one of these, Megastethodon urvillei, is known from Australia.
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Species of Cercopidae known to occur in Australia
Genus Aufidus StålAufidus Stål 1863: 594 |
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Aufidus lucidus Jacobi Aufidus lucidus Jacobi 1928: 49 |
Qld |
Aufidus trifasciatus Stål Aufidus trifasciatus Stål 1863: 594 |
Qld, Mysol |
Genus Aufiterna KirkaldyAufiterna Kirkaldy 1906: 382 |
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Aufiterna kirkaldyi (Jacobi) Aufiterna ptyeloides Kirkaldy 1906: 382 Note: Jacobi (1921) synonymised Aufiterna with Aufidus thereby creating homonymy between Aufiterna ptyeloides Kirkaldy and Notoscarta ptyeloides Breddin which had previously been placed in Aufidus. He therefore created the new name Aufidus kirkaldyi Jacobi for A. ptyeloides Kirkaldy. Evans (1966: 313), in rejecting the generic synonymy, reverted to the original combination although ICZN Art. 59.3 states that a junior secondary homonym replaced before 1961 is permanently invalid. |
Qld |
Genus Euryaulax KirkaldyEuryaulax Kirkaldy 1906: 380 Note: Evans (1966) failed to recognise Lallemand's (1949) synonymy of Eoscarta as defined by Distant (1908a) with Euryaulax and listed the species below as Eoscarta. Liang (1996) redefined Eoscarta in Asia and excluded the Australian species from the genus. Liang & Fletcher (2002) reverted to Lallemand's recognition of Euryaulax for the following species and formally excluded Eoscarta Breddin from the Australian fauna. [update: 12.iv.2010] The genus was revised by Liang, et al. (2012). |
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Euryaulax angustifasciatus Liang et al. Euryaulax angustifasciatus Liang, Combéfis & Jiang 2012: 159 [update: added 12.iv.2012] |
WA, NT |
Euryaulax arctofasciata Lallemand Euryaulax arctofasciata Lallemand 1949: 79 Note: This species was synonymised (as artofasciata) with E. carnifex by Evans (1966) but reinstated by Liang, et al. (2012) [update: 12.iv.2012] |
NT |
Euryaulax carnifex (Fabricius), the sugarcane froghopper Cercopis carnifex Fabricius 1775: 688 Note: Metcalf (1961) listed Triecphora maculata Walker as a valid species of Eoscarta but Evans (1966) listed this name as a synonym of Eoscarta carnifex without comment although his synonymy of E. arctofasciata was noted as a new synonym. The origin of the synonymy of Walker's name is therefore obscure but is here credited to Evans (1966) as the earliest publication found to list the synonymy. E. carnifex is a known minor
pest of sugarcane (Magarey, et al. 1988). |
Qld, WA, NT, NSW, New Guinea [NT, NSW updates: 12.iv.2012] |
Euryaulax kirkaldyi Liang et al. Euryaulax kirkaldyi Liang, Combéfis & Jiang 2012: 161 [update: added 12.iv.2012] |
NT |
Euryaulax longiprocessus Liang et al. Euryaulax longiprocesses Liang, Combéfis & Jiang 2012: 162 [update: added 12.iv.2012] |
NT, WA |
Euryaulax vacuolus (Jacobi) Eoscarta vacuola Jacobi 1928: 49 [update: image added 30.vi.2006] |
Qld, NT [NT update: 12.iv.2012] |
Genus Megastethodon SchmidtMegastethodon Schmidt 1910: 59 |
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Megastethodon australis (Butler) Cercopis urvillei Walker 1858a: 170 (misidentification) Note: This species was recorded from Australia, as Cercopis urvillei, by Walker (1858a) who misidentified the Australian species. This species is apparently restricted to New Guinea. |
"Australia", New Guinea |
Megastethodon urvillei (Le P. & S.) Cercopis urvillei Le
Peletier and Serville 1825: 605 [update 18.i.2002: Original combination added] |
Qld, PNG, Indonesia (Aru Is., Maluku) |
Genus Petyllis KirkaldyPetyllis Kirkaldy 1906: 382 |
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Petyllis deprivata (Walker) Monecphora deprivata Walker 1858a: 179 Note: This species has been collected in WA from Bossiaea (Fabaceae), Lomandra (Dasypogonaceae), Macrozamia (Zamiaceae), Adenanthos (Myrtaceae) (Moir et al. 2003) |
NSW, Qld, Vic, WA [WA update: 12.ix.2003] |
Genus Tonnoiria LallemandTonnoiria Lallemand 1954: 501 |
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Tonnoiria chinai (Hacker) Eoscarta chinai Hacker 1926: 244 |
Qld |
Tonnoiria tasmaniae Lallemand Tonnoiria tasmaniae Lallemand 1954: 501 Note: Evans (1966) used the name T. tasmaniana but Lallemand's (1954) original spelling was T. tasmaniae. |
NSW, ACT, Qld, Tas, Vic |