Species Rosopaella nigra Webb, 1983
Compiler and date details
10 October 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Rosopaella nigra Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [21].
Type data:
Holotype NMV T-14424 ♂ (coll.: 23.i.1978, Neboiss), Myrtleford, Victoria.
Introduction
This is one of the species of Rosopaella with transverse banding on the forewings. It is only known from the male holotype from Myrtleford in NE Victoria.
Distribution
States
Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Vic: NSW South Western Slopes (NSS)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Colour as in R. cuprea (Walker), but face heavily marked with dark brown; vertex, pronotum and scutellum dark brown and legs tinged with brown. Male genitalia as in R. cuprea but subgenital plate more elongate and aedeagus with anterior processes bifurcate and posterior processes more divergent. Length, ♂ 4.2 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 [21]
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 30-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |