Species Rosopaella praeda Webb, 1983

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• Rosopaella praeda Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [20].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: 8.ii.1963, I.F.B. Common), Black Mountain, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

 

Introduction

This brightly coloured species has been found in a broad swathe of eastern Australia from SE Queensland to western Victoria with two females from Yanchep in the Swan Valley of Western Australia also placed here by Webb (1983).

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species is closely related to R. cuprea (Walker) but differs in its generally smaller size (♂ 4.6–4.8 mm; ♀ 5.0–5.5 mm) and in having the pronotum of the female orangey brown to scarlet rather than yellowish. The male genitalia are also similar to those of R. cuprea but the processes from the anterior margin of the aedeagus are rounded and upturned apically (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 [20–21]

 

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)