Species Balocharella crosea Webb, 1983
Compiler and date details
29 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Balocharella crosea 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 BPBM ♂ (coll.: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland.
Introduction
This species is based on a male and a female specimen from Kuranda in the wet tropics of North Queensland. Webb (1983) gave the type locality as Cairns, K. but a red "K" on a printed "Cairns" label is how Kirkaldy indicated Kuranda as explained by Medler (1987).
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. bulbulla by the presence of two pairs, rather than a single pair, 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]
General References
Medler, J.T. 1987. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XI. Taxonomic notes on Kirkaldy Types in the Bishop Museum, with illustrations of the genitalia of male lectotypes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 27: 115-125 [116]
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) |