Species Zaletta filda Webb, 1983

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• Zaletta filda Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [39].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: 23.i.1970), Pine Island, 16 km S of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

 

Introduction

This species, which is normally plain green in colour but often with brown or red markings, is distributed along a narrow band of SE Australian from southeastern Queensland to central Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Callistemon sp. [MYRTACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

This species, along with [Zaletta[ kisseis, can be distinguished by its apically expanded subgenital plates and by the long expanded apex of the female third valvulae. It differs from kisseis in lacking a pair of brown spots on the vertex and in having three rather than four aedeagal processes (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 [39–40]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019	Idiocerinae Baker, 1915	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED