Adelidoria glauca[4] is an insect species from Sri Lanka that was first described by William Forsell Kirby in 1891. It is the only species of the genus Adelidoria, which is related to the genus Cerynia, but differs in the neuration, etc.[5][6][7][8]
| Adelidoria glauca | |
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| Illustration by William Forsell Kirby | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Infraorder: | Fulgoromorpha |
| Family: | Flatidae |
| Genus: | Adelidoria |
| Species: | A. glauca
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| Binomial name | |
| Adelidoria glauca (Kirby, 1891)
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| Synonyms[1][2][3][4] | |
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Description edit
According to Distant, length excluding tegmina 9 to 10 mm; including tegmina 33 to 35 mm.[8] According to Kirby it is 27–31 mm long.[4] Tegmina are pale bluish grey, hind marginal area is paler; hind wings are more grey and iridescent. Body white, scutellum and legs black. Abdomen covered with white feathery waxy excrescences.[4] The frons is longitudinally convex, genae anteriorly rotundate, neither frons nor genae produced in the middle. Ocelli distinct. Antennae: segments of the peduncle elongate, first extending considerably beyond the lateral margins of the genae, second about one-fifth longer than the first. Tegmina are very greatly decumbent, very ample, sensibly widened towards the apex, rotundate, with a single regular series of transverse nervures towards the apex; corium, etc. (except at the base) with numerous transverse nervures; many of the longitudinal nervures furcate. Costal membrane dilated, basally narrowed more than twice as long in the middle as the costal area. Posterior tibiae with one spine. Abdomen compressed.[7][8]
Biology and behavior edit
It sometimes covers the leaves of Syzygium trees upon which the larva feeds. When disturbed, it flies away in clouds.[7][4][8]
Distribution edit
Sources edit
- ^ a b Metcalf Z. P. (1957) Part 13. Flatidae and Hypochthonellidae, In: Metcalf Z. P. 1954 – General Catalog of the Homoptera. Fascicule IV, North Carolina State College, Raleigh (United States of America). pp. 1–565.
- ^ a b Melichar L. (1901) The Monographie of Acanaloniids and Flatiden (Homoptera), Annals of the Royal Swedish Museum of Natural History. Vienna, 16: 178–258.
- ^ a b Kirkaldy G. W. (1903) Recent literature, The Entomologist. An illustrated Journal of Entomology. London, 36: 77–79.
- ^ a b c d e f g Kirby W. F. (1891) Catalog of the described Hemiptera Heteroptera and Homoptera of Ceylon, based on the collection formed by Mr. E. Ernest Green, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. London, 24: 154, 176 (illustration no. 14)
- ^ a b "Catalogue of Life : Poeciloptera glauca Kirby, 1891". catalogueoflife.org.
- ^ a b Bourgoin T. Flow: Fulgoromorpha Lists On the WEB, 28 September 2009
- ^ a b c d e Kirkaldy, G. W. (1902) Memoirs on Oriental Rhynchota, The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, Bombay, Vol. 14: 54.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ a b c d e f Distant, William Lucas, (1902) Rhynchota — Vol. I. (Heteroptera), The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma London, : 411
- ^ a b iNaturalist. Adelidoria glauca. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
