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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 Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) » Deltocephalinae » Paralimnini » Paralimnina » Flexamia » Flexamia areolata
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leafhopper - Flexamia areolata
Copyright © 2007 tom murray

leafhopper - Flexamia areolata
Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
September 28, 2007
Found in the grasses in a sandy area.

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Contributed by tom murray on 29 September, 2007 - 7:28pm
Last updated 1 October, 2007 - 5:13pm

State record!
This one must be moving north. Don Chandler will have to keep an eye out for this one in NH, since Dunstable is right on the NH border.
… tom murray, 1 October, 2007 - 5:14pm login or register to post comments

Flexamia areolata
The oblique black dashes along the wing edges are "reflexed" crossveins, characteristic of this genus. F. areolata is the only one with bold "eye spots" on the wings. It is a specialist on lovegrass, Eragrostis spectabilis; the "eye spots" mimic the little black seeds of the grass.

This is a new state record. It has been taken as far north as CT on the Atlantic coast.
… Andy Hamilton, 1 October, 2007 - 9:31am login or register to post comments

Save
for me please. While I may not know the names, I usually know when I haven't seen species before.
… Donald S. Chandler, 29 September, 2007 - 10:04pm login or register to post comments

 
I thought you might want this one
so I did save it.
… tom murray, 29 September, 2007 - 10:37pm login or register to post comments

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