Species Rosopaella nubera Webb, 1983
Compiler and date details
10 October 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Rosopaella nubera Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [28].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: 1-25.v.1935, R.E. Turner), Mt Tamborine, Queensland.Type locality references:
Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).
Introduction
This yellowish orange species is only known from Tamborine Mountain in SE Queensland. All known specimens were collected by R.E. Turner in May 1935.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
This species can be distinguished by its overall yellowish orange appearance, variably tinged with scarlet, and the absence of brown markings on the head and thorax (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 [28–29]
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) |