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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) » Deltocephalinae » Macrostelini » Macrosteles » quadrilineatus complex (Macrosteles quadrilineatus complex) » Aster Leafhopper (Macrosteles quadrilineatus)
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Leafhopper nymph and adult - Macrosteles quadrilineatus
Copyright © 2007 Dorothy E. Pugh

Leafhopper nymph and adult - Macrosteles quadrilineatus
Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
August 15, 2007
Size: 3 or 4 mm each
These two were among hundreds of leafhoppers of the same species flying at about 8 pm in what used to be a swamp but now has lots of plants with yellow flowers because a long-standing drought.
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Contributed by Dorothy E. Pugh on 16 August, 2007 - 2:20pm
Last updated 8 September, 2017 - 8:03pm

Moved
Moved from Macrosteles.
… Kyle Kittelberger, 8 September, 2017 - 8:03pm login or register to post comments

Moved
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Macrosteles
Water holes gather hundreds of insects during droughts!
… Andy Hamilton, 17 August, 2007 - 7:34am login or register to post comments

 
Macrosteles quadrilineatus?
Thanks! Is it safe to say the adult at least is a Macrosteles quadrilineatus?
… Dorothy E. Pugh, 17 August, 2007 - 10:37am login or register to post comments

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