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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Free-living Hemipterans (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoroidea) » Achilid Planthoppers (Achilidae) » Epiptera » Epiptera opaca
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BIIIIIG Planthopper!! - Epiptera opaca
Copyright © 2009 Ashley Bradford

BIIIIIG Planthopper!! - Epiptera opaca
Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
August 10, 2009
Size: 1 cm
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Contributed by Ashley Bradford on 11 August, 2009 - 12:24am
Last updated 11 August, 2009 - 8:54am

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… v belov, 11 August, 2009 - 8:54am login or register to post comments

Epiptera opaca
You can see the large wing overlap so characteristic of Achilidae; and then the rest is easy, because Epiptera is our only large genus, and E. opaca is our only black species in that genus.
… Andy Hamilton, 11 August, 2009 - 7:47am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Andy!
Are they not very common? Just wondering, since this seems to be the first entry for these here.
… Ashley Bradford, 15 August, 2009 - 7:15pm login or register to post comments

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