Species Rosopaella kirkaldyi (Evans, 1936)

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• Idiocerus kirkaldyi Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [79].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ (coll.: iv.1930, J.W. Evans), Leura, New South Wales.

 

Generic Combinations

• Rosopaella kirkaldyi (Evans, 1936). —
  Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [29]

 

Introduction

This species is very similar externally to R. swani (Evans) and R. carmiella Webb so Webb (1983) stated that some of the females he attributed to this species may actually be darker specimens of R. swani. The distribution of the species given here is not markedly altered if this is the case.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head yellow suffused with pink, with two round black markings on the vertex close to the eyes; eyes chocolate brown; clypeus wider anteriorly than at the base, frons almost flat. Pronotum yellow suffused with pink, with two black markings behind the eyes and close to the posterior border. Scutellum marked with a pattern of black and pinkish yellow. Tegmen transparent, grey apically; veins pink, costal margin black. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface pale yellow. Legs marked with a pattern of pink, yellow and brown. Length 6.8 mm, head width 2 mm (Evans 1936).

This species is externally similar to R. swani and R. carmiella but can usually be distinguished by being more distinctly marked with brown and scarlet and often larger than R. swani. The narrow apical region of the subgenital plate is distinctive (Webb 1983).

 

ID Keys

Webb 1983: 7–10

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [79]

Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [29–30]

 

General References

Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [31]

 

History of changes

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