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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers (Cicadomorpha) » Spittlebugs (Cercopoidea) » Typical Spittlebugs (Aphrophoridae) » Aphrophorinae » Philaenini » Philaenus » Meadow Spittlebug (Philaenus spumarius)
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Click Beetle? - Philaenus spumarius
Copyright © 2006 Mardon Erbland

Click Beetle? - Philaenus spumarius
Logy Bay - Middle Cove Beach, Northeast Avalon, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
July 20, 2006
Size: 7mm Body Length
Beetle sitting on my car. It jumped a lot and very high, so that's why I'm guessing a Click Beetle of some sort.
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Contributed by Mardon Erbland on 20 July, 2006 - 1:34pm
Last updated 25 July, 2006 - 2:53pm

meadow spittle bug
Philaenus spumarius.

Spittle bugs are the most powerful jumpers in the insect world, achieving twice the "G"s (1 G = normal gravity) of a jumping flea. The funny thing is, nobody knows how they do it. The don't have any special structures to achieve such powerful leaps.
… Andy Hamilton, 25 July, 2006 - 2:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks again!
Thanks for your comments on this one too. I've moved it to the species page along with the other two that you identified. :)
… Mardon Erbland, 25 July, 2006 - 2:54pm login or register to post comments

Homopteran
Not a beetle but some kind of hopper—in the same Order as Cicadas and Aphids, the Homoptera. They are indeed incredible jumpers.
… Stephen_WV, 20 July, 2006 - 2:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks & Found Another Specimen
Thanks for the ID. I'd better stop guessing. I was way off again. It's a good way to learn though. I found another specimen after I posted this one. I got more photos of that one, so I posted it too. If this one is a duplicate, it's fine with me to move it to frass. Do the extra photos shown at my second posting help provide a more specific idea of species?
… Mardon Erbland, 20 July, 2006 - 2:59pm login or register to post comments

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