Species Rosopaella felicta Webb, 1983
Compiler and date details
5 October 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Rosopaella felicta Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [23].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: 22.iii.1968, I.F.B.Common & M.S. Upton), 13 km SW of Mt Ragged, Western Australia.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Mallee (MAL)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head and thorax yellow to brownish yellow. Vertex and dorsal region of face marked with orangey scarlet and several small brown spots. Pronotum with two irregular longitudinal brown patches on each side. Scutellum marked with brown. Forewings yellow to brownish hyaline; veins concolorous with cells or scarlet to brown. Legs yellow, with a brown longitudinal patch on posterior surface of middle and hind femur and tibia. Abdomen yellow, tergites broadly marked with dark brown anteriorly. Male genitalia similar to those of R. swani but subgenital plates narrower apically and processes from anterior margin of aedeagus longer. Length ♂ 5.4 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 [23]
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) |