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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoromorpha) » Fulgoroidea » Achilid Planthoppers (Achilidae) » Plectoderini » Momar » Momar fumidus
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Male, Momar? Maybe M. fumidus (Ball)? - Momar fumidus
Copyright © 2018 Salvador Vitanza

Male, Momar? Maybe M. fumidus (Ball)? - Momar fumidus
Madera Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
September 8, 2018
Size: 4.5 mm to tip of wings

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Male, Momar? Maybe M. fumidus (Ball)? - Momar fumidus Male, Momar? Maybe M. fumidus (Ball)? - Momar fumidus Male, Momar? Maybe M. fumidus (Ball)? - Momar fumidus Male, Momar? Maybe M. fumidus (Ball)? - Momar fumidus Male, Momar? Maybe M. fumidus (Ball)? - Momar fumidus
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Contributed by Salvador Vitanza on 12 September, 2018 - 10:42pm
Last updated 10 April, 2019 - 12:02pm

Moved
Moved from Momar maculifrons.
… Salvador Vitanza, 10 April, 2019 - 12:02pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Momar.
… Kyle Kittelberger, 10 April, 2019 - 11:37am login or register to post comments

All the same individual?
Must admit it is strange that this image has no broad black markings, while the other angles do, such as:
… James Bailey, 14 December, 2018 - 10:55am login or register to post comments

 
Absolutely, positively, definitely, 100% the same individual
... and I am not the kind of person who believes in absolutes (due to the uncertainty principle).
It must be a matter of angle, but this was the only specimen of its kind captured and photographed at that time.
See comments here:
… Salvador Vitanza, 14 December, 2018 - 11:27am login or register to post comments

 
I agree with James
I know we already discussed this on the wing image, but you appear to have two Momar species here. The last two images are of M. maculifrons, the rest are M. fumidus.
… Kyle Kittelberger, 10 April, 2019 - 11:50am login or register to post comments

 
Now I am in doubt
If the two of you are in agreement, it is possible that there were at least two specimens in the sample and I didn't realize when they mixed.
… Salvador Vitanza, 10 April, 2019 - 11:59am login or register to post comments

 
yeah
you can even look at the shape of the frons, which is different across the two images.
… Kyle Kittelberger, 10 April, 2019 - 12:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Great!
I moved the images according to your diagnosis. Thanks so much!
… Salvador Vitanza, 10 April, 2019 - 12:04pm login or register to post comments

 
awesome
No problem!
… Kyle Kittelberger, 10 April, 2019 - 12:05pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Achilid Planthoppers.
… Salvador Vitanza, 13 September, 2018 - 5:47pm login or register to post comments

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