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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers (Cicadomorpha) » Leafhoppers and Treehoppers (Membracoidea) » Typical Treehoppers (Membracidae) » Smiliinae » Buffalo Treehoppers and allies (Ceresini) » Stictocephala » Stictocephala lutea
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Ceresa festina - Three-cornered Alfalfa Hopper - Stictocephala lutea
Copyright © 2015 Jim Eckert

Ceresa festina - Three-cornered Alfalfa Hopper - Stictocephala lutea
east off Rt. 183 near Appalachian Trail, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
May 13, 2012
On vetch sp. Submitted for PA record.

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Ceresa festina - Three-cornered Alfalfa Hopper - Stictocephala lutea Ceresa festina - Three-cornered Alfalfa Hopper - Stictocephala lutea
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Contributed by Jim Eckert on 28 March, 2015 - 4:21pm
Last updated 11 November, 2020 - 2:38pm

Moved
Moved from Buffalo Treehoppers.
… v belov, 3 April, 2017 - 7:02pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Three-cornered Alfalfa Hopper.
… Jim Eckert, 28 March, 2015 - 9:06pm login or register to post comments

Most of the festina images in the Guide...
...show green legs. Could this be lutea?



I don't pretend to know; I'm just wondering.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 28 March, 2015 - 4:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Ceresa lutea ot festina
Hi, Ken - Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I'm "just wondering" now too! I was ready fully to agree that it was lutea, but then I found that Andy Hamilton, who was the one who had noted the "dark legs" criteria, had made a festina ID on a quite obviously dark legged specimen (photos 788812, 788816). So it all has gotten out of my league, and for now I'll demote this one to Buffalo Treehoppers (Ceresa). There it can stay until when or if any of the major leaguers want to duke it out over a better ID.
… Jim Eckert, 28 March, 2015 - 9:05pm login or register to post comments

 
Sounds like a plan :)
I've seen some seemingly contradictory hopper IDs, too--enough to leave me wary of the entire group.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 28 March, 2015 - 9:10pm login or register to post comments

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