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Photo#482317
Leafhopper nymph - Scaphoideus incisus

Leafhopper nymph - Scaphoideus incisus
Ballston Lake, Saratoga County, New York, USA
June 26, 2009
In open field. Can't identify host plant from photo, but possibly milkweed. ID help appreciated.

Moved
Moved from Scaphoideus.

Moved
Moved from Leafhoppers.

For what it's worth...
Scaphoideus looks right to me.

 
Scaphoideus incisus
The tail spines are better developed than in Osbornellus.
We need to know whether the color patterns of nymphs are consistently associated with any particular host; this one seems to be associated with Asclepias such as butterfly weed (e.g., # 285313) but was observed in numbers only on Matelea gonocarpos (# 112086). We now have an adult specimen with associate nymphs to be "bar coded" (tested for DNA).

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