Species Zaletta rotifer Webb, 1983
Compiler and date details
15 November 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Zaletta rotifer 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 AM ♂ (coll.: iv.1971, M. Wallace), Millstream area, Western Australia.
Introduction
This species is only known from a single male specimen in AM from the Pilbara bioregion of NW Western Australia.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Pilbara (PIL)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
This species can be distinguished by its small size and colour. The male genitalia are similiar to those of [Z.] nikitini but differ in the shape of the aedeagus (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) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 30-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |