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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) » Leafhoppers and Treehoppers (Membracoidea) » Typical Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) » Deltocephalinae » Phlepsiini » Phlepsanus
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Leafhopper - Phlepsanus
Copyright © 2012 Lon Brehmer and Enriqueta Flores-Guevara

Leafhopper - Phlepsanus
next to San Pedro River, Redington, Pima County, Arizona, USA
September 12, 2012
fairly large hopper on a dead bush, unlike others I've seen here

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Contributed by Lon Brehmer and Enriqueta Flores-Guevara on 8 December, 2012 - 2:01pm
Last updated 20 December, 2012 - 8:51am

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… v belov, 20 December, 2012 - 8:51am login or register to post comments

Phlepsanus
This is the species called "P. nigrifrons" in the latest revision (Crowder 1952) based on specimens from AZ; but the types, which do not exactly match this color pattern, are from Arkansas!

Are you sure that the bush was dead? I have taken Phlepsanus on old-growth sagebrush in AZ that almost looked dead, it had so few leaves.
… Andy Hamilton, 20 December, 2012 - 8:49am login or register to post comments

 
You're right
I think the bush was not completely dead, which makes sense because a leafhopper would not be very interested in a dead bush. I went back and looked at the other photos, and I am not absolutely positive, but I think it was a Burrobrush (Hymenoclea salsola - it wouldn't surprise me if it is not this species though). I think it was the same plant nearby with scale insects, Burrobrush Leaf Beetles (Leptinotarsa lineolata), and Cleonini Weevil Beetles (Apleurus saginatus). I thank you for all of your invaluable help. I'm trying to get better at documenting which plant I find an insect on.
… Lon Brehmer and Enriqueta Flores-Guevara, 20 December, 2012 - 11:03am login or register to post comments

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… Eric R. Eaton, 19 December, 2012 - 12:27am login or register to post comments

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