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Neoaliturus tenellus - female

Neoaliturus tenellus - Female
Ardenvoir, Chelan County, Washington, USA
July 1, 2002
Size: 5mm

New species
Do you have some other images? Different views? They would be very useful since this is new to the guide.

 
Sadly
that is the only image in my archive.

 
This may be another

I haven't been able to return to the site to confirm the plant, but it ain't no beet!

Neoaliturus tenellus
This is the beet leafhopper, a notorious introduced pest. Females (such as this) are easily recognized by the dark-margined notch at the base of the ovipositor that looks exactly like a burn mark left on the edge of a table from a lit cigarette. Males are equally distinctive from the underside, having truncate "plates" (the terminal flaps that protect the genitalia look as if they have been cut off transversely).

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