Species Zinislopa troopa Webb, 1983
Zinislopa troopa Webb, damaged adult female.
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Species Zinislopa troopa Webb, 1983
Compiler and date details
16 November 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Zinislopa troopa Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [90].
Type data:
Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: 14.xii.1961, McAlpine & Lossin), Mulgrave River, 4 miles W of Gordonvale, Queensland.
Introduction
This species is found along coastal Queensland from the wet tropics in the north to the Brisbane region in the south extending across the New South Wales border to the Tweed River.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Yellow, marked with brown, including a small spot on vertex near to each eye, a crescent-shaped mark above each ocellus, a series of transverse bars laterally on clypeus, an anterior patch each side of midline of pronotum and a few patches more anteriorly against vertex, and basal triangles and a pair of central spots on scutellum; markings sometimes indistinct. Forewing veins brown with whitish patches (Webb 1983).
Webb (1983) provides a description and figures of the male and female genitalia.
Diagnosis References
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [90]
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) |