Species Zaletta tambourina (Evans, 1942)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Idiocerus tambourina Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers from Tasmania and Queensland. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1941: 27-30 [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: 1-9.v.1935, R.E. Turner), Tamborine Mountains, Queensland.

  Type locality references:

  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).

 

Generic Combinations

• Zaletta tambourina (Evans, 1942). —
  Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [38]

 

Introduction

This distinctively coloured species is widespread in coastal areas from the North Kimberley region of Western Australia around the top end and east coast to southern New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Darwin Coastal (DAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface, anteclypeus, lora and maxillary plates yellow; frontoclypeus yellow but for a rose pink median area close to the hind border; vertex and eyes rose pink; ocelli and two muscle impressions between the ocelli and the hind margin of the head, yellow. Crown of even width throughout. Pronotum with a median pink longitudinal stripe, bordered on each side by yellowish grey, pink, black, red and yellow zones; these are not distinct stripes but merge into each other. Scutellum deep pink, muscle impressions black. Tegmen hyaline, greenish yellow; apex smoky brown with a broad black band merging into pink against the hind border. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface pale yellowish green. Length 4.5 mm. This is a somewhat variable species but the general effect of the colour pattern is consistent (Evans 1942).

This species can be distinguished by its distinctive colour pattern, tumid clypeus, elongate clypeus and short first r–m crossvein in the forewing. The finger-like processes of the male segment X are distinctive (Webb 1983).

 

ID Keys

Webb 1983: 31–33

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers from Tasmania and Queensland. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1941: 27-30 [28]

Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [38–39]

 

History of changes

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05-Dec-2019		30-Nov-2011	MODIFIED
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