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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) » Iassinae » Gyponini » Gyponana » subgenus Gyponana (Gyponana subgenus Gyponana) » nymphs (Gyponana nymphs)
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Two leafhopper-like insects - Gyponana
Copyright © 2009 Carol Davis

Two leafhopper-like insects - Gyponana
Pineview Reservoir, Weber County, Utah, USA
August 2, 2009
Took these photos of the brown insect, not knowing it was sitting next to the green insect (until I got home and checked out the photos). Leafhoppers?

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Two leafhopper-like insects - Gyponana Two leafhopper-like insects - Gyponana
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Contributed by Carol Davis on 2 August, 2009 - 7:17pm
Last updated 12 October, 2017 - 4:12pm

Moved
Moved from Gyponana.
… Kyle Kittelberger, 12 October, 2017 - 4:12pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Free-living Hemipterans.

I put this under Gyponana (see Dr. Hamilton's ID on the accompanying picture) as we have LOTS of Meadow Spittlebugs.
… Kevin Hall, 4 August, 2009 - 3:35pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Kevin Hall, 2 August, 2009 - 10:09pm login or register to post comments

I believe...
The brown insect is a meadow spittlebug (Philaenus spumarius) and the green one is a leafhopper nymph, Gyponana or Ponana. I'm still not totally sure what distinguishes the latter two.
… Charley Eiseman, 2 August, 2009 - 7:30pm login or register to post comments

 
distinguishing between
Ponana and Gyponana. Charley, Dr. Hamilton mentioned something in another post.

See:
… Kevin Hall, 4 August, 2009 - 3:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Charley,
Thanks for the help. I still don't know the difference between spittlebugs and leafhopppers. They all look the same to me. Maybe some day...
… Carol Davis, 2 August, 2009 - 8:10pm login or register to post comments

 
leafhopper vs. spittlebug...
Pretty easy once someone points it out to you. Not so easy before then.

For leafhoppers, just looks for the spines on the legs like this one below. The spines are also present on the nymphs.


Spittlebugs have spine-free legs. See image below
… Lynette Elliott, 3 August, 2009 - 12:22am login or register to post comments

 
Great!
That was easy. Thanks, Lynette.
… Carol Davis, 3 August, 2009 - 7:54am login or register to post comments

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