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Flat bug - Microcentrus
Copyright © 2015 Alain Hogue

Flat bug - Microcentrus
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada
July 28, 2015
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Contributed by Alain Hogue on 29 July, 2015 - 12:37pm
Last updated 29 July, 2015 - 9:38pm

Moved
Moved from Free-living Hemipterans.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 29 July, 2015 - 9:38pm login or register to post comments

Microcentrus treehopper nymph

yours might actually be a shed exoskeleton because that looks like the lining of a tracheal tube draped down the prothorax and there appears to be an opening in the exoskeleton behind the prothorax
… Steve Scholnick, 29 July, 2015 - 9:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks !
You are probably right about exoskeleton. The bug seems abnormaly thin, almost like a sheet.
… Alain Hogue, 30 July, 2015 - 11:51am login or register to post comments

 
the nymphs really are this thin
I that, in general, exuvia don't flatten out relative to their "occupied" shape. Microcentrus nymphs really are this thin - pretty bizarre looking.

The giveaway that it's a molt is the white tracheal tube lining
… Steve Scholnick, 30 July, 2015 - 7:38pm login or register to post comments

membracid nymph? others will tell
must be immediately recognizable

Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 29 July, 2015 - 1:18pm login or register to post comments

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