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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) » Spittlebugs (Cercopoidea) » Typical Spittlebugs (Aphrophoridae) » Aphrophorinae » Cloviini » Lepyronia » Hill-prairie Spittlebug (Lepyronia gibbosa)
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Insects on Mexican Hat plant stems - Lepyronia gibbosa
Copyright © 2009 Jim Baines

Insects on Mexican Hat plant stems - Lepyronia gibbosa
Copperas Cove , Coryell County, Texas, USA
May 5, 2009
While observing new growth of Mexican Hat plants I noticed a white bubbly substance on many of the stems. Closer examination revealed these small insects beneath and emerging from the white bubbly substance. They are approx. 1/4 inch in length.
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Contributed by Jim Baines on 5 May, 2009 - 7:52pm
Last updated 4 June, 2009 - 9:47pm

Moved
Moved from Free-living Hemipterans.
… john and jane balaban, 4 June, 2009 - 9:47pm login or register to post comments

Lepyronia gibbosa
The dark stripes are characteristic of this genus (see view/182154#277195). There is only one species recorded from TX.

The very red abdomens suggest that you have "boosted" the contrast on this photo.
… Andy Hamilton, 26 May, 2009 - 10:23am login or register to post comments

Check out spittlebugs...
...in the family Cercopidae. See here
… Peter Edelman, 5 May, 2009 - 8:10pm login or register to post comments

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