Species Balocharella bulbulla Webb, 1983
Compiler and date details
29 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Balocharella bulbulla Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [61].
Type data:
Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: iv.1969, J. Brooks), nr Cairns, Queensland.
Introduction
This species is known only from the holotype male from the wet tropics of North Queensland although Webb (1983) tentatively identified two female specimens from neighbouring localities as also being this species.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
This species can be differentiated from B. crosea by the presence of a single pair, rather than two pairs, of posterior processes on the aedeagus (Webb 1983)
ID Keys
Webb 1983: 61
Diagnosis References
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [61]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 30-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |