Hopper nymph on bitternut hickory - Acanalonia bivittata

Charley if you want to help w

Charley if you want to help with a project with these nymphs, consider rearing a few. I've seen 2 adult Acanalonia bivittata in 18 years of living in TN yet every Acanalonia nymph I submit or ask for ID help with is identified as A. bivittata. OTOH, A. conica is super common here so it would make more sense that most of the dozens of nymphs I've seen were A. conica. I can't find it right now but there's a record on iNat of a reared nymph that was originally identified as A. bivittata that turned out to be A. conica.

… Ken Childs, 14 May, 2023 - 3:37pm

Moved

Moved from Two-striped Planthopper.

… john and jane balaban, 16 October, 2008 - 5:11pm

What's the significance

of this category? Looks like everything is either an adult or a brown nymph.

… Charley Eiseman, 16 October, 2008 - 8:47pm

Can't remember anymore

think it was just to get the many nymph images pulled out from the adult images so you could focus on one or the other, without looking through the adults for the immatures or looking through the immatures for the adults.

… john and jane balaban, 16 October, 2008 - 9:32pm

That makes sense

I wish there was an option of selecting only the adults or immatures for every kind of bug, instead of just Lepidoptera. I'm going to remove the word "brown" from the title, to avoid future confusion.

… Charley Eiseman, 16 October, 2008 - 9:46pm

Yes, Beatriz has brought that up

a number of times. We can only hope that BugGuide 2.0 allows for that to happen. It will mean going through all the images to make sure adult vs immature is checked, but that's a one time big secretarial job and then pretty easy to keep up.

… john and jane balaban, 16 October, 2008 - 9:59pm

Acanalonia

nymphs can be viewed on the info page here

… john and jane balaban, 30 September, 2008 - 9:47am

Thanks...

Seems like A. bivittata, but I'm not sure how I would rule out A. pumila.

… Charley Eiseman, 30 September, 2008 - 11:33am

Acanalonia bivittata

A. pumila is much smaller, paler, and found only in the Gulf states.

… Andy Hamilton, 15 October, 2008 - 2:08pm