Species Zaletta lutea (Evans, 1942)
Compiler and date details
15 November 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Idiocerus luteus Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [150].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: 11-21.i.1936, R.E. Turner), Dedari, Western Australia.Type locality references:
Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).
Generic Combinations
- Zaletta lutea (Evans, 1942). —
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [42]
Introduction
This species is known from the holotype and a female paratype from Dedari, near Coolgardie, Western Australia. Webb (1983) states that an additional three female specimens from the same locality are in BMNH but differ in lacking a characteristic colour feature of the tegmen and in the shape of the posterior hind margin of the female pregenital sternite.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Coolgardie (COO)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head slightly convex, yellow; eyes black. Pronotum concolorous with the head. Scutellum apricot. Tegmen proximally bronze hyaline yellow, distally hyaline brown, veins yellow. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface yellow. Hind tibia pale green with two rows of dark brown spines. Length 4 mm (Evans 1942).
Claval suture of forewing whitish. Posterior margin of female pregenital sternite broadly U-shaped medially (Webb 1983).
ID Keys
Webb 1983: 31–33
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [150]
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [42]
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 30-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |