Species Rubria sanguinosa (Stål, 1865)
Rubria sanguinosa (Stål), adult.
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Species Rubria sanguinosa (Stål, 1865)
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21 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Petalocephala sanguinosa Stål, C. 1865. Homoptera nova vel minus cognita. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 22: 145-165 [158].
Type data:
Syntype(s) NHMW ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: A. Dohrn), Australia borealis. - Rubria carnosa Stål, C. 1865. Homoptera nova vel minus cognita. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 22: 145-165 [159].
Type data:
Syntype(s) NHMW ♀, quantity unknown, Australia borealis. - Ledropsis coccinea Butler, A.G. 1874. Descriptions of three new species of homopterous insects. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874: 672-673 [673].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (Saunders collection), N. Australia. - Rhotidus monstrum Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [367].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vii.1904), Nelson (=Gordonvale), Queensland; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [102] (synonymy of R. carnosa, L. coccinea, R. monstrum)
Generic Combinations
- Rubria sanguinosa (Stål, 1865). —
Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [102]
Introduction
This beautiful pinkish red species is distributed along the east coast of mainland Australia from Cape York Peninsula in North Queensland to the Sydney region of New South Wales. It is narrow in general outline than other described species of Rubria.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Sanguinea, dense punctata, interdum minute pallido-conspersa; fronte, pectore, ventre femoribusque pallide sordide stramineis: capite thorace fere duplo longiore, antrorsum leviter angustato, apice rotundato, transversim leviter convexo,
aarina subtilissima longitudinali instructo; ocellis inter se quam ab oculis paullo longius remotis; tegminibus abdominis apicem attingentibus; alis sordide hyalinis, sanguineo-venosis. ♀. Long. 9, Lat. 2 mm. (Stål 1865).
Similar to B. flavomaculatus [=Petalocephala bohemani Stål (Ledrini)] but much narrower and the tegmina are suffused with rosy, and not spotted with yellow. Length: 10¾ mm. Nymphs are dirty brown, obscurely marked with black. (Kirkaldy 1906, of Rhotidus monstrum).
A distinctive slender species uniformly pinkish in colour (Evans 1966).
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [102]
Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [367]
Stål, C. 1865. Homoptera nova vel minus cognita. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 22: 145-165 [158–159]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 20-Sep-2011 | 20-Sep-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |