Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Otiocerus

Hopper - Otiocerus degeeri Hopper - Otiocerus wolfii orange and white moth - Otiocerus coquebertii orange and white moth - Otiocerus coquebertii Hopper - Otiocerus degeeri Derbid Hopper - Otiocerus wolfii Whitefly? - Otiocerus abbotii Orange and White Hopper - Otiocerus coquebertii
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Free-living Hemipterans)
Superfamily Fulgoroidea (Planthoppers)
Family Derbidae (Derbid Planthoppers)
Genus Otiocerus
Numbers
9 species in North America listed at nearctica.com
Identification
Adult: long and slender with tips of forewings widened or flared; variably reddish or yellowish or pale brown; legs short; head pointed
Range
eastern United States and southeastern Canada [the distribution map linked to below shows one dot in Northwest Territories to represent Canada but it seems unlikely that a specimen was found that far north]
also occurs in Central and South America
Internet References
pinned adult image of O. wolfii (Insects of Cedar Creek, Minnesota)
adult illustration of O. degeerii (Andy Hamilton, naturewatch.ca)
world distribution map (U. of Illinois)