Species Balocerus brooksi Webb, 1983
Compiler and date details
28 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Balocerus brooksi Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [49].
Type data:
Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: iv.1969, J. Brooks), Cairns, Queensland.
Introduction
This species is only known from the type locality near Cairns in the wet tropics of North Queensland.
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 distinguished by the brown markings on the face and pronotum and by the very broad dorsal arm of the aedeagus in lateral aspect, with the more lateral branch of the dorsoanterior processes long (Webb 1983).
ID Keys
Webb 1983: 46
Diagnosis References
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [49]
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) |