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Description
BL ♂: 8.2-9.7 mm; ♀: 8.9-9.7 mm. Base color black, thorax always completely black. Forewings usually with a posterior red band and two red spots on each wing. Red coloration can be very weak or absent. Legs with red ‘knees’ (joint between femur and tibia). Ventral plates of the connexivum red with black spots. Frons in sideview exceeding the fore margin of the vertex.
Ecology
Adults between April and July, hibernates in the larval stadium. Adults feed on herbs, grasses and probably also on trees in a wide range of (half)open habitats.
Distribution
A common species in the Mediterranean area, known from the Iberian peninsula, southern France, Italy and a few countries in southeast Europe.
References
- 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.
- Kirschbaum, C.L. 1868. Die Cicadinen der Gegend von Wiesbaden und Frankfurt a.M. nebst einer Anzahl neuer oder schwer zu unterscheidender Arten aus anderen Gegenden Europa’s. Jahrbuch des Nassauer Vereins fur Naturkunde 21-22: 1-202. (Description)
- Kunz, G. 2009. Das Insekt des Jahres 2009. Die Gemeine Blutzikade Cercopis vulnerata (ROSSI, 1807) (Auchenorrhyncha, Cercopidae). Entomologica Austriaca 16: 345-351.
- Lodos, N. & A. Kalkandelen 1981. Preliminary list of Auchenorrhyncha with notes on distribution and importance of species in Turkey VI. Families Cercopidae and Membracidae. Turkiye Bitki koruma Dergisi 5(3): 133-149.
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