Species Rosopaella filoxa Webb, 1983

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rosopaella filoxa Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [26].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: 19–26.iv.1935, R.E. Turner), Mount Tamborine, Queensland.

  Type locality references:

  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).

 

Introduction

This species, recorded from the eastern coastline from SE Queensland to the New South Wales south coast, was only tentatively separated from R. crofta Webb by Webb (1983).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Colour similar to R. crofta Webb but head and thorax without distinct brown markings, sometimes orangey yellow; scutellum with or without distinct brown markings. Hind legs with or without brown markings on posterior surface. Ovipositor brown, turning to yellow or scarlet distally. Male genitalia similar to those of R. crofta but subgenital plates narrower distally with ventroapical heel more prominent and styles with apical process short and preapical angle moderately wide (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 [26]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		30-Nov-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)