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Asianidia melliferae Quartau & Remane 1996

Description

Asianidia melliferae Quartau & Remane, 1996

Asianidia melliferae Quartau & Remane, 1996: 2

Distribution. Endemic to Madeira Island but not included in recent checklists (Hoch, 2004). MADEIRA: known from a single locality (Ribeiro Bonito) on northern slope (Quartau and Remane, 1996).

Food plants. Probably monophagous on Euphorbia mellifera, a rare endemic plant of Macaronesian laurel forest growing in moist shady places (Quartau and Remane, 1996).

Other

Published as part of Aguin-Pombo, Dora & Freitas, Carlos, 2008, An annotated check list of the Cicadomorpha and Fulgoromorpha (Hemiptera) of the Madeira and Salvages archipelagos, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1762 on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181963

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Asianidia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Quartau & Remane
Species
melliferae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Asianidia melliferae Quartau, 1996 sec. Aguin-Pombo & Freitas, 2008

References

  • Quartau, J. A. & Remane, R. (1996) Asianidia melliferae sp. n. (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae), a new leafhopper from Madeira. Bocagiana, 181, 1 - 3.
  • Hoch, H. (Ed.) (2004) Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha, Cicadomorpha. Fauna Europaea version 1. 3, available from http: // www. faunaeur. org. (03. July. 2007).