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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoromorpha) » Fulgoroidea » Fulgorid Planthoppers (Fulgoridae) » Poiocerinae » Poiocerini » Poiocerina » Alaruasa » Alaruasa lepida
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colorful Resaca planthopper - Alaruasa lepida
Copyright © 2009 Michael Rickard

colorful Resaca planthopper - Alaruasa lepida
World Birding Center at Resaca de la Palma State Park, Cameron County, Texas, USA
December 6, 2008
I first observed this spectacular little homopteran in the woods at Resaca in October 2008. Several of them were present. Mike Rickard, who normally specializes in butterflies, took this photo in December, I think during Resaca's grand opening. Would love to know what it is...
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Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 24 March, 2009 - 7:47am
Last updated 18 December, 2010 - 2:33pm

Moved
Moved from Alaruasa.
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 25 April, 2009 - 12:51pm login or register to post comments

Alaruasa lepida (Spinola 1839)
Moved from Free-living Hemipterans.
… v belov, 27 March, 2009 - 4:54pm login or register to post comments

Alaruasa lepida
Only in Texas! And not all that little. One of our larger Fulgoridae.
… Andy Hamilton, 24 March, 2009 - 8:42am login or register to post comments

 
Something else
Hey Andy - can you check out the other photos I just posted under this same species heading? I just instinctively lumped them together, thinking that because both were brilliantly multicolored, and in the same state park just a couple of months apart, that they were probably the same species. Now that I'm comparing Mike's photo to mine, I am realizing that what I photographed is something else completely, not even particularly Fulgorid-looking...
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 25 April, 2009 - 1:29pm login or register to post comments

Alaruasa lepida
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