Species Zaletta nikitini Webb, 1983

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• Zaletta nikitini Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [37].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: 4.iii.1971, M.I. Nikitin), Cabramatta, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This species is based on a series of specimens collected on more than one occasion at Cabramatta, a western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales by M.I. Nikitin. Mstislav Ivanovich Nikitin (1.iv.1911–8.i.1986) was born in Irkutsk, Siberia and was interested in insects from an early age. He spent his early scientific life at the Harbin Museum but migrated to Australia in 1957 where he collected insects for sale to help support himself. Much of his material collected during this period was sold to the BMNH. He gained an entomological assistant position with the NSW Department of Agriculture where he worked from 1959 to 1975 eventually retiring as a Senior Technical Officer. He published 61 scientific papers, mainly on the insects of Manchuria between 1933 and 1945 and his autobiography was published in 1986 in four parts in the Circular of the Entomological Society of New South Wales (v.359: 7–22, v.361: 30–48, v.363: 57–62 and v.365: 64–80).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species can be distinguished by its colour and by the shape of the male genitalia (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 [37]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		30-Nov-2011	MODIFIED
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