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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 » Itzalana » Itzalana submaculata
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Resaca planthopper - Itzalana submaculata
Copyright © 2009 Texas Parks and Wildlife Department - Joshua S. Rose, Ph.D.

Resaca planthopper - Itzalana submaculata
World Birding Center at Resaca de la Palma State Park, Cameron County, Texas, USA
September 29, 2008
I was leading a group on a dragonfly identification workshop when I spotted these glorious critters. The same species was photographed at pretty much the same location a few months later by Mike Rickard; I posted his photo, which was identified, while my pics were languishing in a folder on my computer waiting to be processed much later...

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Resaca planthopper - Itzalana submaculata Resaca planthopper, rear view - Itzalana submaculata Resaca planthopper with company - Itzalana submaculata
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Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 25 April, 2009 - 1:12pm
Last updated 1 May, 2009 - 1:09pm

Moved
Moved from Itzalana. ID by Ed Riley
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 1 May, 2009 - 1:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Alaruasa lepida.
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 1 May, 2009 - 1:08pm login or register to post comments

Alaruasa?
I'm not saying you are wrong - didn't know that they came in a short-winged form! The color is quite different from A. lepida, even though there is only supposed to be a single species in this genus.

P.S. - I'd love to see the nymph!
… Andy Hamilton, 28 April, 2009 - 7:52am login or register to post comments

 
Corrected ID
Hi Andy - I would say that there is no doubt I was wrong! (see my comment on the page with the *real* A. lepida photo). Texas A&M master entomologist Ed Riley has ID'd this critter as Itzalana submaculata Schmidt (Fulgoridae). Glad to know I was at least in the right family... The Guide has no page for this species yet; I'll create one soon if nobody beats me to it.
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 28 April, 2009 - 11:04am login or register to post comments

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