Genus Hackeriana Evans
Hackeriana
huonensis Evans
Genus
Hackeriana
Evans 1937b: 67
Type species:
Hackeriana
huonensis Evans, by original designation
Known species: Five species are known, all from southern Australia.
Comments: The species of Hackeriana are distinctive in their green colouration, which fades to pale yellow-brown in pinned specimens. The elongate shape with the well defined crown also make this genus reasonably easy to identify. In some ways, Hackeriana species are similar to species of the tartessine genus Newmaniana Evans which are also unusually (for their subfamily) elongate and green. Newmaniana can be easily distinguished from Hackeriana through the presence of a well developed appendix which extends around the apex of the tegmen while Hackeriana species, along with other thymbrines, lack a well developed appendix. Known hosts of Hackeriana species are all eucalypts.