Species Zaletta aulonias (Kirkaldy, 1907)
Zaletta aulonias (Kirkaldy), adult female.
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Species Zaletta aulonias (Kirkaldy, 1907)
Compiler and date details
7 November 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Idiocerus aulonias 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.: ix-xii.1904, Koebele), 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 [36].
Generic Combinations
- Zaletta aulonias (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [36]
Introduction
This largish, plain coloured species is known from several localities along the eastern coastline of Queensland.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Close to [Zaletta] kisseis [(Kirkaldy)], but pale creamy-grey in general colour, though it may be more or less rosy or reddish. There are no head spots. Male: valve triangularly notched in the middle; pygophor broader than in the last [Rosopaella napais (Kirkaldy)], ovipositor not so long as in the last. Length 5 1/8 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).
This species can be distinguished by its pale colour, slightly tumid clypeus adjacent to the clypellus and the shape of the male genitalia (Webb 1983).
ID Keys
Webb 1983: 31–33
Diagnosis References
Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [34]
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [36]
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) |