Species Rosopaella lopada Webb, 1983

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• Rosopaella lopada Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: 14.xi.1958, M.I. Nikitin), Casula, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This species is reasonably widespread in eastern Australia from the wet tropics of North Queensland to Victoria. Webb (1983) designated four male and four female paratypes from South Australia but did not indicate a locality.

 

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: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Colour as in R. crofta Webb but markings on head and thorax usually paler, legs without brown markings and female with ovipositor yellow to scarlet. Male genitalia similar to those of R. crofta but styles with apical process shorter and preapical angle narrow; aedeagus with basal stem narrow throughout length and anterior processes from dorsal margin stouter. Female genitalia as in R. cuprea (Walker) [with teeth of second valvulae extended to near midlength of valvulae; expanded apex of third valvulae about half length of narrow basal region and extended about half its length beyond pygophore] (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 [27–28]

 

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)