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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) » Iassinae » Gyponini » unidentified nymphs
Photo#166542
Green bug
Copyright © 2008 Charley Eiseman

Green bug
Pelham, Butter Hill Wildlife Sanctuary, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
June 29, 2007
Size: ~1 cm
Some sort of Homoptera nymph, I suppose...
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 23 January, 2008 - 8:29pm
Last updated 30 March, 2021 - 11:00am

Moved
Moved from Gyponini.
… Solomon Hendrix, 30 March, 2021 - 11:00am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ponana pectoralis.
… Kyle Kittelberger, 19 January, 2021 - 12:05pm login or register to post comments

Ponana pectoralis
Hmm ... green Gyponini with black legs ... there's only two such in MA and one is common as adults while the other is very rare. But nobody has actually seen a nymph before. Congratulations!
… Andy Hamilton, 24 January, 2008 - 8:15am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks again!
I guess I should trust my instincts--it seemed like a leafhopper to me, but I had no idea there were any that big, or with such long antennae.
… Charley Eiseman, 24 January, 2008 - 3:40pm login or register to post comments

 
size
It is easy to overestimate size. Adults are about 10 mm (1 cm) so nymphs would only be more than 1 cm if you include the long antennae.
… Andy Hamilton, 29 January, 2008 - 7:58am login or register to post comments

 
You're right (of course!)
I took this photo with my non-macro lens, which has a field of view of 7 cm when I zoom in and get as close to the subject as possible. When I shrink the original image down to 7 cm wide, the insect's body is about 1 cm.

My memory of it being larger probably stems from having first seen it in detail when I zoomed in on the recorded image on my camera.
… Charley Eiseman, 29 January, 2008 - 9:24am login or register to post comments

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