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Blue exhaust! - Aplos simplex
Copyright © 2007 john and jane balaban

Blue exhaust! - Aplos simplex
Harms Woods Forest Preserve, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA
July 5, 2007
Size: ~5mm
Found this little guy, with blue waxy filaments, sitting on a leaf in an oak hickory woodland. Very interesting beauty.

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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 7 July, 2007 - 9:51am
Last updated 4 July, 2008 - 11:36am

Moved
Moved from Thionia elliptica.
… john and jane balaban, 4 July, 2008 - 11:36am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Thionia simplex. Moved per Dr. Hamilton's correction on Photo#124949.
… Ted Kropiewnicki, 7 March, 2008 - 10:53am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Fulgoroidea.
… Ted Kropiewnicki, 6 March, 2008 - 11:18pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies.
… john and jane balaban, 27 July, 2007 - 11:38am login or register to post comments

Fulgoroid nymph
I have never seen a northern North American planthopper nymph like this ... lots of ones in the tropics and in CA, but not in northern IL (note: not IN) which is where Harms Woods is located.

Watch for adults!!
… Andy Hamilton, 11 July, 2007 - 9:09am login or register to post comments

 
Rhynchomitra?
Yes, it seems counterintuitive to think that a broad, short-legged bug could be an immature specimen of a narrow, long-legged one; but I have eliminated just about everything else. Try for a side view next time you see one of these things.

It is certainly not a nymphal Cedusa, which has been reported from Florida and is black like the adults, but much broader; see http://bugguide.net/node/view/116482/bgpage.
… Andy Hamilton, 27 July, 2007 - 8:28am login or register to post comments

 
Ooops, a slip of the finger
Thanks for catching it :-)
… john and jane balaban, 11 July, 2007 - 3:30pm login or register to post comments

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