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What is it?
Copyright © 2007 Olivier Aubry

What is it?
St-Joseph-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada
August 1, 2007
Size: 3mm
A colleague of mine have found this doing beating on appletree... he's wandering what it is. He's saying it's a larva, but I have my doubts and would tend toward a fly... he hasn't given me any details other than this picture.

Many thanks for any help!
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Contributed by Louise Voynaud on 2 August, 2007 - 9:07am
Last updated 27 December, 2007 - 5:08pm

Moved
Moved from True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies.
… Eric R. Eaton, 27 December, 2007 - 5:08pm login or register to post comments

Possibly Delphacid planthopper.


Check out the following:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/111

Your's is possibly newly molted - which is why it looks larva-like?
… apgarm, 2 August, 2007 - 9:22am login or register to post comments

 
gravid
Nope - that's a short-winged female, just bursting with eggs.
… Andy Hamilton, 20 September, 2007 - 2:07pm login or register to post comments

 
How?
How can you tell? I'm curious!
… Louise Voynaud, 20 September, 2007 - 2:19pm login or register to post comments

 
gravid female
(1) It is an adult because the short wings have a very narrow, articulated base, whereas nymphs have wing buds that taper backwards from a broad, unarticulated base.

(2) It is gravid because the plates of the abdomen are forced apart by the eggs inside, so that the pale intersegmental membrane (and the white eggs underneath) show between the plates.
… Andy Hamilton, 4 December, 2007 - 8:11am login or register to post comments

 
Wow! Thanks!
Wow! Thanks!
… Louise Voynaud, 2 August, 2007 - 9:28am login or register to post comments

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