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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Free-living Hemipterans (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoroidea) » Flatid Planthoppers (Flatidae) » Flatinae » Siphanta » Torpedo Bug (Siphanta acuta)
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Nymph - Siphanta acuta
Copyright © 2009 R. Berg

Nymph - Siphanta acuta
Alameda County, California, USA
September 28, 2009
Size: ~0.2 in. (5 mm)

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Contributed by R. Berg on 28 September, 2009 - 7:56pm
Last updated 10 October, 2009 - 10:29am

Moved
Moved from Free-living Hemipterans.
… Charley Eiseman, 10 October, 2009 - 10:29am login or register to post comments

Siphanta acuta
a Faltid nymph (note that the wax filaments are bushy, not straight and forming bundles like watercolor paintbrushes, as they do in Issidae)
… Andy Hamilton, 10 October, 2009 - 9:46am login or register to post comments

 
Oh.
Green adult hoppers that look like those on the guide page are around, too. I wouldn't have guessed that their offspring look like this.
… R. Berg, 10 October, 2009 - 10:44am login or register to post comments

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