Species Zaletta corona Webb, 1983
Compiler and date details
7 November 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Zaletta corona Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [36].
Type data:
Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: 30.v.1966, K. Moore, on Melaleuca), nr Quamby, Queensland.
Introduction
This smallish species is found in the tropical north of Western Australia and the Northern Territory with the type locality being near Quamby in the Mount Isa region of inland Queensland.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
This species can be distinguished by features of the face (clypeus usually slightly tumid adjacent to the clypellus and angularly rounded adjacent to each antennal ledge and clypellus with a transverse ridge near apex) and by the elongate aedeagus (Webb 1983).
ID Keys
Webb 1983: 31–33
Diagnosis References
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [36–37]
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) |