Haematoloma dorsata

(Ahrens, 1812)

Information

Description

BL ♂: 6.7-8.5 mm; ♀: 6.9-8.6 mm. Base color black, thorax and legs completely black. Outer margin of forewings red. Forewings with a broad, red posterior band, a red spot in the clavus and a red spot in the corium, connected to the red outer margin. Coloration of forewings can be very variable, some specimens are nearly completely black, without any red coloration. Frons not clearly arched, not exceeding the front of the vertex.

Genitalia:

  • Male aedeagus: shaft short, with two short appendages.
Ecology

Adults between April and July, hibernates in the larval stadium. Adults feed on pines in open to closed forest, mostly on sandy substrates. Larvae feed on the roots of grasses, most probably mainly on Deschampsia flexuosa. Feeding damage is known from the Mediterranean area.

Distribution

Widely distributed throughout southern and central Europe.

References
  • Ahrens, A. 1812. Cercopis dorsata Germ. Fauna Insectorum Europae 1: 21pp. (Description)
  • Biederman, R. & R. Niedringhaus 2004. Die Zikaden Deutschlands – Bestimmungstafeln für alle Arten. WABV Fründ.
  • Den Bieman K, Biedermann R, Nickel H & Niedringhaus R 2011. The planthoppers and leafhoppers of Benelux. Identification keys to all families and genera and all Benelux species not recorded from Germany. WABV Fründ.
  • 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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