Species Salona oceanica (Kirkaldy, 1909)

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• Nogodina oceanica Kirkaldy, G.W. 1909. Hemiptera, old and new, No. 2. The Canadian Entomologist 41(11): 388-392 [392] [replacement name; for Ricania hyalina Kirby, 1889].
• Ricania hyalina Kirby, W.F. 1889. On the insects (exclusive of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera) of Christmas Island. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1888: 546-555 [Date published 1 April 1889] [555] [junior homonym; of Cicada hyalina Fabricius, 1781].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown, Christmas Island.

Generic Combinations

• Salona oceanica (Kirkaldy, 1909). —
  Melichar, L. 1923. Homoptera. Fam. Acanaloniidae, Flatidae et Ricaniidae. Genera Insectorum 182: 1-185 [173]

Introduction

This is the only member of the Gaetuliini recorded on Christmas Island and one of only two tropiduchids.

Distribution

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Male. Head yellowish; the carinae black, the clypeus marked with brown lines between them; the middle carinae not projecting on the vertex, which is deeply and triangularly depressed in the middle; thorax reddish above, the middle carinae yellow; abdomen brown above, the sides marked with yellow, and the segments bordered with green behind. Under surface of the body yellow, the femora, the extremities of the first five segments of the abdomen, and a large
spot at each side at its extremity green; the base of the first five abdominal segments rich cream-colour. Exp. al. 15 millim.; long. corp. 5 millim. (Kirby 1889, of Ricania hyalina Kirby).

Diagnosis References

Kirby, W.F. 1889. On the insects (exclusive of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera) of Christmas Island. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1888: 546-555 [Date published 1 April 1889] [555]

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