Leafhopper - Prokelisia

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… john and jane balaban, 20 June, 2007 - 10:35am

Prokelisia

This is a genus of Delphacidae that lives on salt marsh grasses. You need to see the face (underside of the head) to be sure of the species, but I would expect it to be P. dolus, which is very common in the northern coastal areas.

… Andy Hamilton, 5 June, 2007 - 3:15pm

Thank You

That is very interesting. Brooklyn and Queens has a fantastic salt marsh in Jamaica Bay. Unfortunately, it is vanishing at an alarming rate. I doubt this fellow is responsible but I found a web site which talked about the negative impact of Prokelisia on Spartina, a salt marsh grass.

Also interesting to me is that I found this fellow in my back yard. I live in a row house in the middle of Brooklyn, 5 miles from the nearest salt marsh. I'm surprised he got here.

Doing a Google search, I found only one useful image of Prokelisia and there is no guide page in Bugguide. The images did match up nicely, though.

… Steve Nanz, 6 June, 2007 - 4:20am

Just a suggestion

Have you checked out Psyllidae?

… Chuck Entz, 3 June, 2007 - 4:52pm

Neither:-)

This is almost certainly a delphacid (large first antennal segment). Great shot!

… Eric R. Eaton, 4 June, 2007 - 3:52pm

Javesella?

Thanks Eric.

I replaced the photo with a larger res image (click "full size"). Looking at the hind leg and wing venations, I see that it matches well with images I've found under Javesella in Bugguide.

… Steve Nanz, 5 June, 2007 - 4:38am