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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 » Texananus » Subgenus Iowanus (Texananus Subgenus Iowanus)
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Leafhopper - Texananus
Copyright © 2015 Scott Clark

Leafhopper - Texananus
Ivy Creek Natural Area, near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
July 23, 2015
Size: 1cm
This leafhopper came to a moth sheet
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Contributed by Scott Clark on 26 July, 2015 - 11:40am
Last updated 6 August, 2015 - 11:57am

Moved
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… v belov, 6 August, 2015 - 7:55am login or register to post comments

Texananus
subgenus Iowanus. Pretty sure you need an underside shot of the genitalia to tell species
… Kyle Kittelberger, 6 August, 2015 - 1:41am login or register to post comments

 
Question
Hi, Kyle--thanks for the ID! Could you explain how to differentiate this subgenus from Japanese Leafhopper (Orientus ishidae)?

--scott
… Scott Clark, 6 August, 2015 - 9:44am login or register to post comments

 
Hi Scott
If you were to compare this subgenus to Japanese, Japanese is smaller. Japenese adults can be variable in color, but there is typically a fair amount of orange on their bodies. This Texananus subgenus is sort of uniform in coloration, except for the pale vertex, while Japanese are not typically as uniform. I also think of Japanese as more cylindrical, Texananus are wider. Hope that helps
… Kyle Kittelberger, 6 August, 2015 - 10:42pm login or register to post comments

 
OK--thanks, Kyle!
OK--thanks, Kyle!
… Scott Clark, 7 August, 2015 - 6:41am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 26 July, 2015 - 11:45am login or register to post comments

 
leafhopper
Is there any way to move this back to ID Request? I know it's a leafhopper, but I was hoping someone would have the chance to narrow it down more than that.
… Scott Clark, 26 July, 2015 - 11:56am login or register to post comments

 
it was moved for expert attention
experts rarely look in the ID Request; well, very few of them ever do -- it would be a waste of time, so editors try to sort things asap to places where the experts are most likely to see them

you can always move you pics back [or to any guide page, for that matter], but it will be moved to family or deeper by the next editor cleaning up the ID Request
… v belov, 26 July, 2015 - 4:31pm login or register to post comments

 
I see--thanks for explaining
I see--thanks for explaining how it works; I hadn't heard any of that before.

--scott
… Scott Clark, 26 July, 2015 - 5:35pm login or register to post comments

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