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subgenus Scaphoideus (Scaphoideus subgenus Scaphoideus)
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Scaphoideus incisus
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Copyright © 2010
Karl Hillig
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.
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Contributed by
Karl Hillig
on 31 December, 2010 - 8:06am
Last updated 19 August, 2017 - 10:14am
Moved
Moved from
Scaphoideus
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Kyle Kittelberger
, 19 August, 2017 - 10:14am
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Moved
Moved from
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v belov
, 4 January, 2011 - 7:49am
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For what it's worth...
Scaphoideus
looks right to me.
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Ken Wolgemuth
, 31 December, 2010 - 9:21am
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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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Andy Hamilton
, 4 January, 2011 - 7:46am
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