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Acanthuchus rufiventris
About 4mm long, shiny black with translucency near the rear; beady pale eyes with a dark spot; three 'head' horns and a long, curved, horizontally mounted dorsal one. Maybe it should be called 4-horned.
Resting on the leaf stem of an introduced fig species (common) in a suburban back yard.
Just yesterday I was think that we don't have any membracids here because Sergio has them all - and this morning I found one just outside our back door. Woohoo! Lucky I had my specs on - I was excitedly underwhelmed by the size :-) I think they are usually interested in eucalyptus so this one might have been just resting on it's journey further down our yard. http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b... order: HEMIPTERA suborder: AUCHENORRHYNCHA infraorder: CICADOMORPHA superfamily: MEMBRACOIDEA family: MEMBRACIDAE subfamily: Centrotinae tribe: Terentiini genus: Acanthuchus https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthuchu...
Spotted on Jan 12, 2014
Submitted on Jan 12, 2014
2 Comments
Ooh, nice one.
quite a dapper little guy! :-)