Species Zaletta minuta (Evans, 1941)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macrocerus minutus Evans, J.W. 1941. New Australian leafhoppers. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65(1): 36-41 [39].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: ii.1940, D.C. Swan), Flinders Chase, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [33].

 

Generic Combinations

• Zaletta minuta (Evans, 1941). —
  Metcalf, Z.P. 1952. New names in the Homoptera. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 42: 226-231 [229]

 

Introduction

Webb (1983) designated a male neotype to replace the female holotype which Evans (1941) stated was in SAMA but appears to have been lost. The species is only known from Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Kanmantoo (KAN)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface lemon yellow, eyes greenish yellow, crown slightly wider in the centre than against the eyes. Pronotum, scutellum and tegmen pale buff. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface pale biscuit colour. Length 3 mm (Evans 1941).

This species can be distinguished by its small size and the long dorsoposterior processes on the aedeagus. In the single male studied, the apophyses of the styles are unaccountably reduced (Webb 1983).

 

ID Keys

Webb 1983: 31–33

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1941. New Australian leafhoppers. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65(1): 36-41 [39]

Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [33]

 

History of changes

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