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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 » Deltocephalini » Planicephalus
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Blue leafhopper - Planicephalus
Copyright © 2017 Timothy Reichard

Blue leafhopper - Planicephalus
Odenton, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA
June 10, 2017

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Contributed by Timothy Reichard on 4 October, 2017 - 10:59pm

Moved
Moved from Leafhoppers.
… Kyle Kittelberger, 4 October, 2017 - 11:19pm login or register to post comments

 
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Kyle, is Deltocephalus flavicosta no longer thought to be out-of-range in central Maryland? I've been assuming Deltocephalus flavocostatus is the only species that looks like this, and I think I got that idea from
… Timothy Reichard, 7 October, 2017 - 9:25am login or register to post comments

 
Deltocephalus
yeah I'm not sure how much I trust that distinction anymore and records show that both occur north of that "boundary" so I've actually treated them as a complex as my website. As of now, I'd just leave it at genus level. You don't have to change any of the older pictures, but I'm not going to move any newer ones to a species page...
… Kyle Kittelberger, 7 October, 2017 - 10:00am login or register to post comments

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