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Description
BL ♂: 3.8-4.4 mm; ♀: 4.4-4.7 mm. Face, vertex, pro- and mesonotum brownish, keels lighter. Median keel on clypeus incomplete. Fore wings hyaline or brownish, with or without dark spots. Phallosoma tubular, in some specimens with one or two small teeth ventrally. One movable spine on the right and two on the left side. Apical part of the aedeagus bearing a slender tooth at the right side. Female abdomen apically truncate, without wax-plate. Ductus ejaculatorius with twelve windings. Receptaculum seminis very short. (Holzinger, 2002; Wagner, 1939)
Ecology
Known from thermophilic forests. Adults can be found in early spring. (Holzinger, 2002).
Distribution
According to Holzinger (2002) and Nast (1972) it is a Western Mediterranean species, known from Morroco, Spain, Portugal, southern France and central Italy.
References
- Fieber, F. X., 1876. Les Cicadines d'Europe d'après les originaux et les publications les plus récentes. Deuxième partie: Descriptions des espèces. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie pure et appliquée. Paris (Ser. 3) 4: 11-268. (Description)
- Holzinger, W. E., 2002. A review of the European planthopper genus Trirhacus and related taxa, with a key to the genera of European Cixiidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). European Journal of Entomology 99: 373-398.
- Nast, J., 1972. Palaeartic Auchenorrhyncha (Homoptera) an annotated list. Polish Academy of Sciences institute of Zoology. Warszawa: 550 pp.
- Wagner, W., 1939. Die Zikaden des Mainzer Beckens, Zugleich eine Revision der Kirschbaumschen Arten aus der Umgebung von Wiesbaden. Jahrbuch des Nassauer Vereins fur Naturkunde Wiesbaden 86: 77-212.
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