Species Rosopaella napais (Kirkaldy, 1907)
Rosopaella napais (Kirkaldy), adult male.
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Species Rosopaella napais (Kirkaldy, 1907)
Compiler and date details
10 October 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Idiocerus napais Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [34].
Type data:
Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: xi.1904, Perkins), Bundaberg, Queensland.Subsequent designation references:
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [10].
Generic Combinations
- Rosopaella napais (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [10]
Introduction
This is one of the most widespread species in the genus, particularly in inland parts of eastern Australia, although there appear to be no records from South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania or the Australian Capital Territory.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
This species, together with R. nuda Webb, can be distinguished from other species of the genus by possession of a large membranous expansion on the style apical process. The two species are tentatively regarded as being distinct, being separable only on the shape of the subgenital plate and its arrangement of setae (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 [10]
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) |