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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Psylloidea » Triozidae » Bactericera » Potato Psyllid (Bactericera cockerelli)
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Potato parasites - Bactericera cockerelli
Copyright © 2009 R. Berg

Potato parasites - Bactericera cockerelli
Alameda County, California, USA
June 20, 2009
Size: <1/8 in. (3 mm)
A few of these were on potato leaves in June, in the same places from one day to the next. Then they vanished and left tiny scars on the leaves. I suppose something ate them. Are they sucking insects? Nymphs or adults?

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Contributed by R. Berg on 17 October, 2009 - 10:52am
Last updated 2 May, 2014 - 11:14am

Moved
Moved from Psyllidae.
… v belov, 2 May, 2014 - 11:14am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Psylloidea.
… John R. Maxwell, 30 October, 2009 - 9:18am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… R. Berg, 17 October, 2009 - 6:55pm login or register to post comments

sucking indeed; look like psyllid nymphs to me
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… v belov, 17 October, 2009 - 11:16am login or register to post comments

 
Okay, then, they're probably
Bactericera cockerelli (Potato Psyllid). They look enough like photos of early nymphs at the links from that species' guide page. For the record, two differences: mine were on the upper sides of leaves, not the undersides, and they were too flat to cast shadows.
… R. Berg, 17 October, 2009 - 7:04pm login or register to post comments

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