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Fleahopper? - Orthocephalus saltator - female

Fleahopper? - Orthocephalus saltator - Female
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 16, 2007
Size: about 3mm

Moved
Moved from Orthocephalus.

It seems proper to go to saltator...
^^

Thanks WonGun
There's only 2 species listed for North America, and this looks like it might be Orthocephalus saltator. It has the yellow legs like this one.

 
And this is a female.
^^

 
You can see
macropterous female and male of an Orthocephalus species
here.

 
Your site has a lot of great pictures
and I see it can be difficult identifying these Orthocephalus with males and females of the same species not looking the same.
Thanks for getting the correct genus on these mirids.

 
Thank you!
However, you have further more! I often visited your awesome site before I came here.

Anyway, I found the male of this Genus in this site.


 
The males
are long winged and different than the females.

 
Compare...
this.


I'm quite sure that 19506 is an Orthocephalus saltator.
But, your picture seems somewhat different from that particularly in antenna. The paper states that the antenna of Orthocephalus saltator is uniformly black.
In addition, the tibia in that picture are almost entirely yellow.

Maybe Orhthocephalus...
However, I don't know which of the two species recorded in North America.

Moved
Moved from Plant Bugs.

Looks close
but is not H.bracteatus. In Europe, we have a few more genera that look close to Halti*cus.

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