Species Zinislopa troopa Webb, 1983

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• 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 and IMCRA regions

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