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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) » Darninae » Darnini » Stictopelta » Stictopelta caerulea
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Treehopper - Stictopelta caerulea
Copyright © 2008 margarethe brummermann

Treehopper - Stictopelta caerulea
Amado Rd at the St Cruz River, St Cruz County, Arizona, USA
September 27, 2008
Size: 8 mm
Found paralyzed by a wasp, on Baccharis

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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 1 October, 2008 - 6:42pm
Last updated 24 February, 2022 - 6:36am

Moved tentatively
Moved from Stictopelta varians.
… Solomon Hendrix, 24 February, 2022 - 6:36am login or register to post comments

Stictopelta varians
A distinctively marked Mexican species also found in AZ.
… Andy Hamilton, 15 October, 2008 - 12:51pm login or register to post comments

What did the wasp look like?
What did the wasp look like?
… William Ericson, 1 October, 2008 - 10:02pm login or register to post comments

 
Wasp was Hoplisoides?
I think it is only Hoplisoides that takes membracids, but I could be wrong. Margarethe's description certainly fit that genus....
… Eric R. Eaton, 2 October, 2008 - 1:22am login or register to post comments

 
I'm was very dissapointed that
It dropped the prey, I wanted a photo of both of them.. small, with black and yellow stripes
… margarethe brummermann, 1 October, 2008 - 11:06pm login or register to post comments

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