Genus Porcorhinus Goding
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Genus Porcorhinus Goding 1903: 38
Type species: Porcorhinus mastersi Goding, by original designation

Known species: Porcorhinus mastersi Goding 1903: 39
Synonym: Gudwana typica Distant 1917a: 189, synonymised by China 1924b: 144

Comments: The horns on the pronotum, found in a number of exotic species of Ledrini but in only one Australian species, led Goding to describe this species originally in the family Membracidae. Little is known of its biology but it presumably feeds on Eucalyptus as with other members of the Australian Ledrini. Goding based his species on two specimens, one of each sex. As discussed by Day and Fletcher (1994: 1143) a specimen in MAMU is accepted as the female syntype but the whereabouts of the male, originally said to be in Goding's collection, is currently unknown.

 

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