Species Zaletta lesmurdiensis (Evans, 1936)
Compiler and date details
15 November 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Idiocerus lesmurdiensis Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [80].
Type data:
Holotype AM ♀ (coll.: F. Drummond), Lesmurdie, Western Australia.
Generic Combinations
- Zaletta lesmurdiensis (Evans, 1936). —
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [43]
Introduction
This species, known only from the type locality, Lesmurdie in the Jarrah Forest bioregion of SW Western Australia, is represented in collections by the female holotype in AM and a specimen of unknown sex in the WACALM collection.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Jarrah Forest (JF)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head bright yellow with a large oval pink area on the vertex. Pronotum and scutellum yellow. Tegmen transparent, suffused with pale green; proximal costal margin white. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs yellow; posterior margin of the last ventral abdominal segment in the female straight; apex of abdomen nearly reaching to the tip of the folded tegmina. Length 3 mm, head width 1 mm (Evans 1936)
This species is similar to [Z. nereias (Kirkaldy)] but differs in the length of the first r–m crossveins of the forewing and in the shape of the female pregenital sternite (Webb 1983).
ID Keys
Webb 1983: 31–33
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [80]
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [41]
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) |