Verdanus rosaurus rex
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SUBSPECIES
- Published in
- Guglielmino, Adalgisa, Bückle, Christoph (2009): Northern Apennines as centre of speciation: a new Verdanus species group (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha, Cicadellidae) from Italy and its phylogenetic relationships with V. bensoni and the V. limbatellus group. Zootaxa 2264: 1-22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.190799
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Cicadellidae
- genus
- Verdanus
- species
- Verdanus rosaurus
biology_ecology
Biology: Adults were collected in August in mountain meadows (Fig. 2 D). Probably univoltine. Remarks: The diagnostic character of this subspecies consists in the very narrow, dagger-shaped apical aedeagus appendages (Figs. 6 E-H).
description
Description: As in V. rosaurus sp nov. (see above description) with apical aedeagus appendages narrow (Figs. 6 E-H). Measurements: Males. Total body length (from vertex to tip of fore wings) 3.88 - 4.20 mm; width of head including eyes 1.24 - 1.36 mm; length of vertex 0.52 - 0.56 mm; length of pronotum 0.44 - 0.48 mm; width of pronotum 1.12 - 1.20 mm; length of genital plates 0.45 - 0.46 mm; length of aedeagus shaft (from basis to phallotrema) 0.4 mm. - Females. Total body length (from vertex to tip of fore wings) 3.8 - 4.28 mm; width of head including eyes 1.32 - 1.40 mm; length of vertex 0.56 - 0.64 mm; length of pronotum 0.48 - 0.56 mm; width of pronotum 1.20 - 1.28 mm.
materials_examined
Type series: Holotype Male: Italy, Emilia-Romagna (Reggio Emilia); Ligonchio, Passo di Pradarena, M. Cavalbianco, peak; ~ 1850 m; 13 / 8 / 2005; mountain pasture; Guglielmino & Bückle leg. (loc. 201). Paratypes: same data as holotype, 4 males, 26 females. Type material deposited in Dipartimento di Protezione delle Piante, Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy (Guglielmino’s collection) (CG). Geographic distribution: At present V. rosaurus rex is known only from M. Cavalbianco (Fig. 1: square), in an altitude of about 1850 m.
Name
- Homonyms
- Verdanus rosaurus rex