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Description
BL ♂♀: 7.5-9.0 mm. Base color black, thorax and legs always completely black. Forewings usually with a posterior red band and two red spots on each wing (var. typica). Red coloration can be very weak or absent. Body shape broad ovoid. Ventral plates of the connexivum completely red. Frons in sideview clearly exceeding the fore margin of the vertex.
Two more color morphs are distinguished:
- C. arcuata var. haupti Priesner, 1923: red spot in the clavus is lacking.
- C. arcuata var. pallida Mancini, 1934: the spots which are usually red are yellowish-brown.
Genitalia:
- Male aedeagus: shaft short and curved, spine-like appendages coalesced at the base to a plate with relatively small teeth.
Ecology
Adults between April and June, hibernates in the larval stadium. Thermophilic. In open oak- and pine forests and grassland. Probably feeding on grasses and herbs.
Distribution
A widely distributed species in southern- and central Europe.
References
- Biederman, R. & R. Niedringhaus 2004. Die Zikaden Deutschlands – Bestimmungstafeln für alle Arten. WABV Fründ.
- Fieber, F.X. 1844. Die Cercopis-Arten der Deutschen Insecten-Fauna. Entomologische Monographien: 1-134. (Description)
- Holzinger, W.E., I. Kammerlander & H. Nickel 2003. The Auchenorrhyncha of Central Europe, Fulgoromorpha, Cicadomorpha excl. Cicadellidae. Brill Publishers, Leiden: 673 pp.
- Jach, M. & H. Hoch 2013. Fauna Europaea: Cicadomorpha, Cicadomorpha, Cercopidae. Fauna Europaea version 2.6.2. Available on: www.faunaeur.org.
- Kunz, G. 2009. Das Insekt des Jahres 2009. Die Gemeine Blutzikade Cercopis vulnerata (ROSSI, 1807) (Auchenorrhyncha, Cercopidae). Entomologica Austriaca 16: 345-351.
- Kunz, G., H. Nickel & R. Niedringhaus 2011. Fotoatlas der Zikaden Deutschlands. – WABV Fründ, Osnabruck.
- Nast, J. 1972. Palaearctic Auchenorrhyncha (Homoptera) An annotated check list. Polish Scientific Publishers, Warsaw, Poland,: 550 pp.
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