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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Psylloidea » Aphalaridae » Aphalarinae » Craspedolepta » Craspedolepta suaedae
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Psyllidae or Aphalaridae? - Craspedolepta suaedae
Copyright © 2015 Salvador Vitanza

Psyllidae or Aphalaridae? - Craspedolepta suaedae
El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, USA
September 26, 2015
Size: approx. 2 mm
I used a sweepnet on Seepweed, Suaeda suffrutescens, attempting to collect adult psyllids. Obviously, I captured a number of arthropod species, but the attached image is the only possible (in my opinion) bug related to the nymphs I had observed previously. Could these specimens actually be in the family Aphalaridae? For nymphs and host plant, see my BG submission
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Contributed by Salvador Vitanza on 27 September, 2015 - 12:26pm
Last updated 8 December, 2016 - 12:04am

Moved
Moved from Aphalarinae.
… Chris Mallory, 8 December, 2016 - 12:04am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Psylloidea.
… Chris Mallory, 19 October, 2015 - 6:16pm login or register to post comments

Aphalaridae indeed
I'd love to see a specimen (ideally a male), if you still have these. Email me at cmalloryca@gmail.com if you are interested. If that isn't possible, do you perhaps have a lateral angle photo that shows the wing venation and the side of the head?
… Chris Mallory, 19 October, 2015 - 6:15pm login or register to post comments

 
I will try to find some for you
but the place where I found them had a HUGE hailstorm and the plants look like they went through a grinder. Not exaggerating here! I am very busy nowadays, but I always try to find personal time to take bug photos although I am not collecting most specimens.
… Salvador Vitanza, 19 October, 2015 - 6:20pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Even Dankowicz, 19 October, 2015 - 12:18pm login or register to post comments

Use [thumb:number] with numbe
Use [thumb:number] with number being "1141393" to link images more easily for people. They do look to me like Aphalarids.

Goes with:
… Even Dankowicz, 19 October, 2015 - 12:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Thank you for the tip Even!
… Salvador Vitanza, 19 October, 2015 - 12:22pm login or register to post comments

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