Genus Ceraon Buckton
Ceraon tasmaniae (Fairmaire)
Daunus Stål 1866a:
86, preoccupied
Ceraon Buckton 1903:
228, nom. nov. for Daunus Stål; Kitching 1976:
339; Day 1999: 660. Type species: Centrotus tasmaniae Fairmaire 1846, designated by Stål 1866b:
386
Zanophara Kirkaldy 1904b:
279, nom. nov. for Daunus Stål
Sinenodus Goding 1931:
311, synonymised by Evans 1966: 288.
Known species: Day (1999: 662) lists six species, one of which is undescribed.
Distribution: Mainly southern Australia, all states except NT. One species extends to the Aru Islands, in Indonesia.
Comments: Ceraon species are elegantly narrow, mid brown species with distinctive lateral pronotal processes which expand transversely towards the apex and usually bear distinct ridging on the anterior face. The median pronotal process is quite long, often reaching almost to the apex of the tegmen. The genus was revised by Kitching (1976) who added the Tasmanian species C. pix.