Species Diceratalebra interrogata - Wild Olive Leafhopper

Diceratalebra interrogata (Knull)

Orig. Comb: Alebra interrogata Knull, 1940

Length of male 2.9 mm., of female 3.1 mm (1)

"Ground color of crown, pronotum, scutellum, clavus and basal half of corium dull yellowish green, a dull white median vitta extending full length of crown, and continued over pronotum as dull gray vitta, extending laterad along posterior pronotal margin; lateral margins of pronotum broadly dull gray. Forewing with conspicuous hyaline spots at midlength of clavus, near base of corium, and in brachial cell and cell M near midlength of wing; costal plaque hyaline; apical third of wing hyaline, the apical veins contrasting ivory bordered with black; apical portion of each of inner three apical cells smoky. Face and venter pale." (1)

Det. Kyle Kittelberger, 2020

s. TX (Zapata, Starr & Hidalgo Counties) / ne. Mexico - Map (2)(BG data)(3), range may match that of its host Cordia boissieri (3)

host plant is wild olive (Cordia boissieri, Boraginaceae) (2)

Type Locality: Male holotype, female allotype, 36 paratypes, Starr County, TEXAS, June 2, 1939, D. J. and J. N. Knull; 2 paratypes, Zapata County, Texas, June 2, 1939, D. J. and J. N. Knull. (2)

Knull, D.J. 1940. New Cicadellidae (Homoptera). Entomological News 51: 290-293. (2)

Young, D.A. 1957. The leafhopper tribe Alebrini (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 107(3386): 127-277. (1)