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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) » Iassinae » Gyponini » Ponana » subgenus Ponana (Ponana subgenus Ponana) » "scarlatina Group" (Ponana "scarlatina Group") » Ponana aenea
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Pink Hopper Hiding in Fern - Ponana aenea
Copyright © 2007 Stephen_WV

Pink Hopper Hiding in Fern - Ponana aenea
Near Ruraldale, Upshur County, West Virginia, USA
June 7, 2007
Hiding between two fern frondlets in the dark woods.
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Contributed by Stephen_WV on 10 June, 2007 - 7:13am
Last updated 21 March, 2022 - 9:20pm

Moved
Moved from Ponana rubida.
… Kyle Kittelberger, 21 March, 2022 - 9:20pm login or register to post comments

Ponana rubida
You have just answered one of the mysteries of leafhopper taxonomy - why this insect bears the name "rubida" (reddish) when every specimen in a collection is always tan-colored. Apparently they lose the reddish color when dead.
… Andy Hamilton, 11 June, 2007 - 8:11am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thanks, Andy! I love a mystery, and it is not often I can play a part in solving one! I'll try to find this species again so I can provide a dorsal view too.
… Stephen_WV, 12 June, 2007 - 5:01am login or register to post comments

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