Species Zaletta rubroclava Webb, 1983

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

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: 2.x.1959, M.I. Nikitin), Cabramatta, Georges River Valley, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This species, with its distinctive red clavus, is known from coastal areas of New South Wales from Grafton in the NE corner to the Sydney region. Webb (1983) also lists specimens from Blunder in Queensland which probably refers to Blunder Creek of which there are at least two. The collector of these specimens, Henry Hacker, primarily collected in the southeastern Queensland area and it is presumed that these specimens came from this region.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species can be distinguished by the orange to scarlet clavus of the forewing, the long apical process of the styles and the posterior flanges 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 [33–34]

 

History of changes

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05-Dec-2019		30-Nov-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)