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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 Treehoppers (Membracidae) » Smiliinae » Buffalo Treehoppers and allies (Ceresini) » Spissistilus » Three-cornered Alfalfa Hopper (Spissistilus festinus)
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treehopper - Spissistilus festinus
Copyright © 2018 Joyce Gross

treehopper - Spissistilus festinus
San Leandro, Alameda County, California, USA
June 22, 2017
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Contributed by Joyce Gross on 22 November, 2018 - 3:28am
Last updated 22 December, 2018 - 4:43pm

Moved
Moved from Treehoppers.
… Kyle Kittelberger, 22 December, 2018 - 4:43pm login or register to post comments

Nice photo!
Perhaps the same as this previous submission: (1) - Stictocephala?
… Jim Moore, 22 November, 2018 - 1:07pm login or register to post comments

 
it probably is the same species....
but I was starting to doubt my id on that other one. Also I'm hoping to find Spissistilus festinus. I haven't really figured out how to tell apart Spissistilus festinus from Stictocephala... any idea how to tell them apart?
… Joyce Gross, 22 November, 2018 - 1:25pm login or register to post comments

 
No idea!
I wonder if your two specimens could perhaps actually be Spissistilus festinus? Consider this almost perfect match: (1). Also this forum discussion, Andy's comment, is interesting: (2).
… Jim Moore, 22 November, 2018 - 8:18pm login or register to post comments

 
close match!
That's an amazingly perfect match!! I'm starting to lean towards Spissistilus festinus for both of my images.

It sounds as if the taxonomy with these genera is a mess...

I'm pretty sure I have the specimen for the image above (but not for my older image). I may get it out and see if going through this key helps at all.
… Joyce Gross, 24 November, 2018 - 12:34am login or register to post comments

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