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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Psylloidea » Triozidae » Kuwayama » Kuwayama medicaginis
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Female, Kuwayama medicaginis? - Kuwayama medicaginis - female
Copyright © 2018 Salvador Vitanza

Female, Kuwayama medicaginis? - Kuwayama medicaginis - Female
Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
May 4, 2018
Size: 3 mm
I have often seen this species in southern Arizona, but this is the first specimen that I image to add the state
Attracted to mercury vapor and ultraviolet lights
Coordinates: 31.386725, -110.949359

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Contributed by Salvador Vitanza on 7 May, 2018 - 4:03pm

Moved
Moved from Psylloidea.
… Chris Mallory, 7 May, 2018 - 4:55pm login or register to post comments

That's it
I'm assuming since you're finding it at lights that there is no plant association, but what kind of habitats have you been finding them in? I've still only found this species once in Arizona (at very high elevation in the Chiricahuas, but I have to assume they are at lower elevation as well)
… Chris Mallory, 7 May, 2018 - 4:54pm login or register to post comments

 
The elevation here is 3,674 ft.
The only plant association that I have seen for this species was what I reported in New Mexico and Texas during winter: Atriplex canescens. Here in Arizona I have seen them only at lights.
This location was the parking lot of the Arizona Dept. of Motor Vehicles in Nogales. It is next to a grey water canal with a large diversity of plant species from trees, shrubs, grasses, and aquatic vegetation. There are some clumps of Atriplex canescens nearby, but I have not sampled them.
Thank you Chris!
… Salvador Vitanza, 7 May, 2018 - 6:31pm login or register to post comments

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