Locris sanguinipes (Walker, 1851)

Locris sanguinipes is a generally black and pubescent cercopid with red legs; the costal and apical margins of the forewings may also occasionally be red.

Original description:
Black: head and chest shagreened, dull: head above depressed: face convex, very prominent; keel and cross ridges slight: mouth red, with a black tip: abdomen pitchy, red at the base and at the tip: legs red; thighs partly pitchy: fore-wings dark brown; cross-veins very few, occupying only the tips of the wings: hind-wings grayish, brown at the base. Length of the body 2 lines; of the wings 6 lines.
Walker, F., 1851b. List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum, London. Part III: (4)
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/132910#page/48/mode/1up

Observation on inat:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/192319538

Illustration in:
Distant, W.L. 1911. Insecta Transvaaliensia: A Contribution to a Knowledge of the Entomology of South Africa. Table 20, figure 16.

Posted on 20 de fevereiro de 2024, 09:08 PM by psyllidhipster