Species Zaletta rubens (Evans, 1942)
Compiler and date details
15 November 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Idiocerus rubens 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.: 10-22.i.1936, R.E. Turner), Southern Cross, Western Australia.
Generic Combinations
- Zaletta rubens (Evans, 1942). —
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [43]
Introduction
This is a colourful species from the arid inland areas of SW Western Australia.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Coolgardie (COO)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head bright red sparsely mottled with pale brownish yellow; eyes black. Crown slightly wider in the centre than against the eyes. Pronotum and scutellum concolorous with the head. Tegmen proximally hyaline red with irregular whitish markings, distally hyaline colourless; veins pink. Costal area proximally white. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs pinkish yellow. Length 3.2 mm (Evans 1942).
This species can be distinguished by the markings on the head, thorax and forewings, the long laterofrontal sutures, the short first r–m crossvein of the forewing and the shape of the female pregenital sternite. The broad aedeagus and the setosity of the subgenital plate in the male are distinctive (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 [43–44]
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 30-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |