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*Allocader leai (Hacker) 



Cantacader leai Hacker 1928, p. 176, pi. 20, fig. 3 [Tasmania]. 

 Allocader leai: Drake 1950a, p. 156. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; Queensland Mus. 

 Distribution: Australia (Tasmania). 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



Note: Myrmecophile; adults and nymphs taken in nest of Amblyopone 

 australis Erichson [Hacker]. 

 Allocader nesiotes Drake and Runoff 



Allocader nesiotes Drake and Ruhoff 1962b, p. 249, pi. 7, fig. 2 [Lord 

 Howe]. 

 Type: Holotype d\ brachypterous; Lord Howe Island; So. Austr. Mus. 

 Distribution: Australia (Lord Howe Island). 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



Genus CANTACADER Amyot and Serville 



Cantacader Amyot and Serville 1843, p. 299— Stal 1873, p. 116; 

 1874, p. 46.— Lethierry and Severin 1896, p. 4.— Distant 1903b, 

 p. 123 .— Horvath 1906a, p. 10.— Oshanin 1908, p. 400; 1912, p. 42 — 

 Stichel 1935, p. 348; 1938a, p. 404; 1960a, p. 268; 1960b, p. 390; 

 1960c, p. 129.— Drake 1950a, p. 163.— Drake and Ruhoff 1960a, 

 p. 26. 

 Taphrostethus Fieber 1844, p. 40. — Drake and Ruhoff 1960a, p. 30. 

 Type Species: Piesma quadricornis Le Peletier and Serville. 

 *Cantacader abdivitus Drake 



Cantacader abdivitus Drake 1950a, p. 161 [Queensland]. 

 Type: Holotype 9, macropterous; Redlynch, Queensland, Australia; 

 Drake Coll. (USNM). 

 Distribution: Australia (Queensland). 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 

 ♦Cantacader afzelii Stal Figure 6a, b 



Cantacader afzelii Stal 1873, p. 116 [Sierra Leone]. — Lethierry and 

 Severin 1896, p. 4 [Guinea] .—Distant 1902a, p. 238, pi. 15, fig. 3 — 

 Schouteden 1923, p. 83 [Congo].— Mancini 1939c, p. 308 [Somalia]; 

 1956b, p. 78 [Ethiopia].— Drake 1958a, p. 101 [Kenya; Angola; 

 Ivory Coast; Ghana]; 1958b, p. 25.— Drake and Mamet 1956, p. 300 

 [Mauritius]. — Mamet 1957, p. 56. 

 Type: Holotype o 71 ; Sierra Leone; Stockholm Mus. 

 Distribution: Guinea; Sierra Leone; Ivory Coast; Liberia; Ghana; 

 Ethiopia; Somalia; Kenya; Congo; Angola; Mascarene Islands (Mauritius). 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 

 Note: Taken at light [Drake 1958a]. 



