Species Rosopaella rubrofascia Webb, 1983

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Regional Maps

• Rosopaella rubrofascia Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [24].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: 18-25.v.1935, R.E. Turner), Mount 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 brightly coloured species is probably green with red markings in life. It is known from southeastern coastal areas of the mainland with a single paratype, of unknown gender, from near Collie in SW Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Jarrah Forest (JF), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species is similar externally to R. lopada Webb but can usually be distinguished by the conspicuous scarlet inner margin of the clavus and the absence of brown markings on the head and thorax. In the male genitalia, the posterior process of the dorsal flanges is distinctive (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 [24]

 

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)