Species Rosopaella crofta Webb, 1983

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• Rosopaella crofta Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [25].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: 17.ii.1968, 1680 m, M.S. Upton), Mt Kosciusko, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This species appears to be found mainly in the high country from Canberra to Tasmania.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Colour as in R. swani (Evans) but spots on vertex not extending medially and pronotum with either a few dark brown patches anteriorly or up to 2/3 of pronotum marked anteriorly with brown. Legs usually with only hind tibia marked with brown, sometimes also posterior surface of hind tibia and middle femur and tibia. Abdomen with tergites dark brown medially, extending more laterally in males; ovipositor usually brown basally, turning to yellowish scarlet distally, sometimes only brown laterally or entirely yellow to scarlet. Male genitalia with subgenital plates elongate, slightly expanded distally with dorsal marginal setae fairly short. Styles with apical process relatively long; preapical angle broad. Aedeagus with basal stem expanded distally with dorsoposterior neck short to moderately long; anterior processes from the dorsal margin often weakly developed. Length ♂ 6.2–6.9 mm, ♀ 7.4–8.2 mm (Webb 1983).

 

ID Keys

Webb 1983: 7–10

 

Diagnosis References

Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [25–26]

 

History of changes

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