Species Sassula subviridis (Kirby, 1900)

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• Nogodina subviridis Kirby, W.F. 1900. Homoptera. pp. 130-138 in Andrews, C.W. (ed.). A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): physical features and geology; with descriptions of the fauna and flora by numerous contributors. London : British Museum (Natural History) xiii 337 pp. [135].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll: i.1898), Christmas Island (East Coast).

Generic Combinations

• Sassula subviridis (Kirby, 1900). —
  Distant, W.L. 1909. Rhynchotal notes. XLVII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 3: 317-345 [335]

Introduction

This species is only known from Christmas Island near Indonesia. Kirby (1900) recognised two varieties, one from the East Coast of the island and the other from the North Coast. The variety differs from the original primarily in colour but both are represented only by single females.

Distribution

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: sap-feeder.

Diagnosis

Long. corp. 7 mm; exp. al. 20 mm. Female — Testaceous; abdomen, except at tip, green, with black sutures, expanding in front, and connected; front long, with black lateral and central carinae, the latter crossing and between their upper part is a brown line. Sutures of pronotum more or less black. Tegmina yellowish hyaline, with yellowish-brown nervures; costal area with 11 or 12 cross-nervures before the stigma, which is very large, extending between six or seven cross-nervures, those towards its base being more or less yellow. Subcostal area free. The three upper longitudinal nervures rising together from the upper angle of the basal cell; the second forking at three-fifths of its length, the third at one-fourth. The fourth is widely separated from the others at its base. It is parallel with and closely approximating to the upper vein of the clavus, and it throws off a branch upwards at two-fifths of its length. The middle vein of the clavus unites with the lower one at half its length; lower branch of the clavus broadly brown, and united with the upper by from four to six cross-nervules. Wings hyaline, with brown nervures.

Variety(?). Female — Differs in the body being mostly black, except the front, the sides of the thorax, and the base of the abdomen, which are testaceous. The black central carinae are merely indicated in brown, below the point where they cross; the stigma on the tegmina is almost wholly black, and there are one or two cross-nervures in the subcostal area.

Diagnosis References

Kirby, W.F. 1900. Homoptera. pp. 130-138 in Andrews, C.W. (ed.). A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): physical features and geology; with descriptions of the fauna and flora by numerous contributors. London : British Museum (Natural History) xiii 337 pp. [135–136]

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