Species Rosopaella leurensis (Evans, 1934)

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• Idiocerus leurensis Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [167].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: xii.1930, J.W. Evans), Leura, New South Wales.

 

Generic Combinations

• Rosopaella leurensis (Evans, 1934). —
  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 widespread and reasonably common in coastal and inland sites of SE mainland Australia from the Central Mackay Coast in Queensland to Eyre Peninsula in South Australia with a single specimen from the Musgrave Ranges in NW South Australia. A specimen photographed live in Morwell National Park in Victoria reveals that the species is bright green in life – see http://morwellnp.pangaean.net/browser/invertebrates.html#Hemiptera (accessed 6.x.2011).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head yellowish; eyes dull red. Pronotum and scutellum pale greenish yellow. Tegmen pale greenish, hyaline, veins yellow. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs pale yellow. Length 8 mm, head width 2.1 mm (Evans 1934).

This species can be distinguished by its generally large size and its pale colour with dark brown markings (vertex with a small brown spot near each eye and abdomen usually marked with dark brown either as a single small brown spot laterally on tergites or a series of spots on each side with a larger medial patch). In the male genitalia, the aedeagus is distinctive in having the dorsal margin strongly sinuate in lateral aspect and the dorsoposterior neck fairly long and narrow. In the female, this species and R. galonda have a slight predenticular prominence on the second valvulae (Webb 1983).

 

ID Keys

Webb 1983: 7–10

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [167]

Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [14–15]

 

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)