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Description
BL ♂: 5.6 mm; ♀: 6.0 mm. Upper part of the face black, keels brownish. Clypeus and adjacent part of frons brownish. Only one (weak) keel on transition between vertex and frons. Dorsal half of genae black, ventral half brownish. Vertex and pronotum medially light-brown, laterally darker brownish. Mesonotum dark brown. Fore wings milky white, veins brownish, apically with very characteristic black markings. Phallosoma ventrocaudally with a distinct ridge. One movable subapical spine on the right, two on the left side. Vental process of anal tube almost symmetrical, roundish. (Holzinger, 2002)
Ecology
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Distribution
Restricted to Sardinia. (Holzinger, 2002)
References
- Costa, A., 1883. Diagnosi di nuovi Atropodi trovati in Sardegna. Bollettina della Societa Entomologica Italiana. Firenze 15: 332-341. (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.