Navadna pljunkarica (Velika črna slinarica) Cercopis sanguinolenta

Features

Cercopis sanguinolenta is a species of cicadas in the family Cercopidae. It can reach a length of 6–11 millimetres.

Species	Insect
Living space	Bush crowns
Size	6-11 mm

Description

The male is larger than the female. These froghopper are shining black with bright red marks on the elytra, one spot at the base, one spot in the middle and a stripe at the apex.Bodies in dorsal view are elongated and ovoid. The head is much narrower than the pronotum. Legs are always completely black. Very rarely, red marks are reduced or even missing, and such specimens are almost completely black. The adults of Cercopis, just after getting free from the nymphal exuvia, show pink or whitish markings instead of blood-red. Adults can be seen in May through July or August on herbaceous plants and shrubs, mainly in meadows and woodland edges. It feeds on the sap of the plants. It can fly, but it more often moves by jumping. When they mate Cercopis male and female stay side by side with an angle of less than 45°. Larvae live surrounded by their own secretions in a sort of foam nest and suck the juices on the roots of the host plants.