Species Rosopaella flindersi (Evans, 1941)
Compiler and date details
5 October 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Idiocerus flindersi Evans, J.W. 1941. New Australian leafhoppers. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65(1): 36-41 [37].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA ♀ (coll.: ii.1940, D.C. Swan), Flinders Chase, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
Generic Combinations
- Rosopaella flindersi (Evans, 1941). —
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [14]
Introduction
This species is only known from the female holotype from Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
Distribution
States
South Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
SA: Kanmantoo (KAN)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Yellow with a median longitudinal stripe dorsally on abdomen. Clypeus with sides almost parallel. Female genitalia with teeth of second valvulae extended over slightly more than distal third of valvulae; expanded apex of third valvulae half length of narrow basal region and extended slightly less than half its length beyond gonopore. This species can be distinguished by the median longitudinal brown stripe on the abdomen and the shape of the clypeus (Webb 1983).
ID Keys
Webb 1983: 8–10
Diagnosis References
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [14]
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) |