#2103 - Ceraon vitta
One more from the top of Mt. Ainsley, where like so many of the other insects I saw, was making a meal of the Acacias.
Originally described as Centrotus vitta in 1851, from a badly damaged holotype from an unknown location. 5 years latter the same entomologist described it as Oxyrhachus contorta, and a bit latter on in 1907 another entomologst named it Zanophara albovittata in the Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3.
Ceraon was a demigod responsible for the mixing of wine in Greek myth, but I have no idea if that was relevent when they named the genus.
A Membracid from the wetter parts of SE Australia and Tasmania, where it's usually found on Acacia. Reasonably common.
Mt. Ainsley, ACT









