Rhodopsalta cruentata

Rhodopsalta cruentata, also known as the blood redtail cicada, is a species of insect that is endemic to New Zealand.[2][3] This species was first described in 1775 by Johann Christian Fabricius and named Tettigonia cruentata.[1][4]

Rhodopsalta cruentata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Family:	Cicadidae
Genus:	Rhodopsalta
Species:	R. cruentata
Binomial name
Rhodopsalta cruentata (Fabricius, 1775)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Tettigonia cruentata Fabricius, 1775

References

1. "Rhodopsalta cruentata (Fabricius, 1775)". Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
2. Larivière, M.-C.; Fletcher, M. J.; Larochelle, A. (2010). "Auchenorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera): catalogue" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 63: 1–232. Retrieved 17 December 2018 – via Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research.
3. Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity, Volume Two, Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. Vol. 2. Christchurch, N.Z.: Canterbury University Press. p. 403. ISBN 9781877257933. OCLC 973607714.
4. Fabricius, Johann Christian (1775). Systema entomologiae : sistens insectorvm classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibvs, observationibvs. Flensbvrgi et Lipsiae: In Officina Libraria Kortii. p. 680. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.36510.