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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoromorpha) » Delphacoidea » Delphacid Planthoppers (Delphacidae) » Delphacinae » Delphacini » Kosswigianella
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Tiny blue leafhopper nymph - Kosswigianella
Copyright © 2016 Catherine Morris

Tiny blue leafhopper nymph - Kosswigianella
Burnstown, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
May 14, 2016
Size: less than 2 mm
Cold spring day (~10 oC) - this nymph was the only insect in a moist hole (made by pileated woodpeckers) in a small rotting spruce trunk lying on the ground in mixed deciduous (mostly maple and poplar) and coniferous (mostly white pine) bush in a rural area. Pictures taken without flash, macro-setting,point & shoot Canon Powershot. I have also observed a few similar shaped, slightly larger, grey-coloured nymphs in the general vicinity. This is the only blue one I observed.

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Contributed by Catherine Morris on 15 May, 2016 - 10:58pm
Last updated 19 April, 2017 - 4:43pm

Moved
Moved from Delphacinae.
… v belov, 19 April, 2017 - 4:43pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 17 May, 2016 - 7:31pm login or register to post comments

Looks like an adult Delphacid Planthopper
Not sure if the color is typical.

Here is a similarly shaped one -

… John Rosenfeld, 16 May, 2016 - 2:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Probably not an nymph?
Yes, and I do see ones like your photo around here -- always small - say, < 3mm ... in fact, I thought that's what I had in the woody hole where this blue on turned up, but not so... perhaps blue is just a color variant. In which case, I should remove the "nymph" label, I guess?
… Catherine Morris, 17 May, 2016 - 7:55am login or register to post comments

 
There is a section with Nymphs
Here

I vaguely remember that blue color being caused by some sort of affliction but I can't recall what it was. Hopefully someone else will chime in.
… John Rosenfeld, 17 May, 2016 - 11:18am login or register to post comments

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