Species Zaletta kisseis (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Idiocerus kisseis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [32].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: viii.1904, Perkins), Kuranda, 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 [40].

 

Generic Combinations

• Zaletta kisseis (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [40]

 

Introduction

This species is reasonably common in coastal areas of Queensland from the wet tropics to the Brisbane region in SE Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

Known hosts: Callistemon viminalis (Myrtaceae).

 

Diagnosis

Head pale testaceous, vertex with 4 black spots, the larger pair visible dorsally and nearer the eye than their own diameter: apical of these a smaller pair, a little nearer together; between these 4 the vertex is sometimes suffused with rosy, the tint encroaching a little dorsally also,. Pronotum greyish-rosy. Scutellum rosy with 3 testaceous spots, 2 anteriorly-subcontiguous and one posterior. Tegmina pale olive testaceous, more or less greenish-iridescent, a little smoky at the base internally. Clypeus laterally sinuate, broader apically than at the base. Male: tergites and valve more or less rosy, the latter transverse, sinuate. Female: pygophor long, but much shorter than the ovipositor. Length 5½ mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

This species, which is closely related to [Z.] filda [Webb], can be distinguished by the pair of dark brown spots on the vertex. Some variation occurs in the shape of the aedeagal processes (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 [32]

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