Species Zaletta webbi Fletcher, 2007
Zaletta webbi Fletcher, adult.
© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.
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Species Zaletta webbi Fletcher, 2007
Compiler and date details
16 November 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Zaletta webbi Fletcher, M.J. 2007. The identity of Pascoepus viridiceps (Evans) based on recognition of the male and a new species of Zaletta from Barrow Island, Western Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Idiocerinae). General and Applied Entomology 36: 13-16 [15].
Type data:
Holotype WAM ♂ (coll: S. Callan & R. Graham, 15.iii.2006, Site CC2, mounted ex ethanol 2007), Barrow Island, Western Australia [20°49'02S 115°26'24"E].
Introduction
This plain coloured leafhopper is only known from Barrow Island, Western Australia, where it appears to be reasonably common.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Carnarvon (CAR)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Pale yellow-cream, lacking any dark markings except for dark tip of rostrum in both sexes and reddish apex of ovipositor in females. Pronotum posteriorly and clavus very pale brown contrasting with cream scutellum. Narrowly wedge-shaped with tegmina extending beyond apex of abdomen. Abdominal apodemes short. Male genitalia: Segment 10 large with anterior margin folded inwards and sclerotised. Pygofer truncate apically, without setae or processes. Subgenital plate broader medially than near base, narrowed to rounded apex, with outer margin inrolled and bearing setae over apical half with dense patch at mid-length and tuft at apex. Paramere broad apically, long-triangular wrinkled along inner margin and bearing corrugations towards prominent acute tip, lacking preapical processes or appendages. Aedeagus bearing pair of short apical processes posterior to apical gonopore and strongly sclerotised hook on anterior side of gonopore. In posteroventral view, lateral wings on each side narrow to ventral triangular projections. Length males (N=6) 2.96–3.2 mm (mean 3.13) females (N=2) 3.2 mm (Fletcher 2007).
Diagnosis References
Fletcher, M.J. 2007. The identity of Pascoepus viridiceps (Evans) based on recognition of the male and a new species of Zaletta from Barrow Island, Western Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Idiocerinae). General and Applied Entomology 36: 13-16 [15–16]
History of changes
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