Species Rosopaella nigroscuta Webb, 1983
Compiler and date details
10 October 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Rosopaella nigroscuta Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [25].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: 20.iii.1968, I.F.B. Common & M.S. Upton), Madura, Western Australia.
Introduction
This quite colourful species is known from two widely separated locations, Madura on the SE coastline of Western Australia and near Wedderburn, in the Victorian midlands. It is possible that it is distributed more widely across the southern coastline of Australia.
Distribution
States
Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Vic, WA: Hampton (HAM), Victorian Midlands (VM)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
This species can be distinguished by the dark scutellum, the brown inner margin of the forewings and the orange to scarlet markings on the head. It differs from R. kirkaldyi, with similar markings in some specimens, in having the brown markings on the abdomen dorsomedially only and the legs without brown markings. In the male genitalia, it can be distinguished by the relatively broad processes from the anterior margin of the aedeagus (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 [25]
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 30-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |