I have been struggling to identify this interestingly shaped bug. It is relatively small--I didn't get a measurement but I recall it being about 5mm long. It has broad, oval, opaque, mottled FWs with reticulate venation; the hind tibia have four lateral spurs, and the vertex is quite broad. I'm comfortable that it is an Issid planthopper, and the closest match I can get with a detailed review of the
Univ. of Delaware Issidae web site is the genus
Paralixes. It also somewhat resembles Mike Quinn's example of
Misodema from Wild Basin which has recently been moved to the Tropiduchidae (?).
Contributed by
Chuck Sexton on 21 August, 2015 - 1:56pm
Last updated 26 August, 2017 - 1:26pm