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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) » Spittlebugs (Cercopoidea) » Clastopterid Spittlebugs (Clastopteridae) » Clastoptera » Sunflower Spittlebug (Clastoptera xanthocephala)
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Two spittlebugs sharing spittle - Clastoptera xanthocephala
Copyright © 2009 Beatriz Moisset

Two spittlebugs sharing spittle - Clastoptera xanthocephala
Horsham Trail, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
September 8, 2008
Size: 2 mm
On goldenrod. There were two in the same spittle. I didn't expect to find more than one.
Southeastern PA

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Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 1 March, 2009 - 1:30pm
Last updated 31 December, 2018 - 8:57am

Clastoptera xanthocephala
2 mm is very small for a late-instar spittlebug, so I am guessing it's the Sunflower spittlebug (which actually feeds on various herbaceous plants). Please watch for adults!

Spittlebug nymphs wander away from their spittle masses, and either start new ones, or enter those of other nymphs. Aphrophora nymphs hold the record, of one spittle mass over a foot long containing about 100 individuals!
… Andy Hamilton, 6 March, 2009 - 7:43am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Another interesting comment that may end up buried and out of sight, so I added it to the info pages of spittle bugs and Aphrophora.
… Beatriz Moisset, 6 March, 2009 - 4:50pm login or register to post comments

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