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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 » Issid Planthoppers (Issidae) » Issinae » Thioniini » Aplos » Aplos simplex
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Leafhopper Nymph - Aplos simplex
Copyright © 2009 Robert Lord Zimlich

Leafhopper Nymph - Aplos simplex
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
May 24, 2009
I found this nymph on a lantana and thinking it's same Graphocephala species as found on the same lantana.
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 25 May, 2009 - 12:15pm
Last updated 19 June, 2015 - 10:31pm

coincidence?
These bugs aren't even close - one is a planthopper, the other a leafhopper. The similarly colored stripes must surely be a coincidence, unless they are specialized to the same colored habitat?
… Andy Hamilton, 26 May, 2009 - 12:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Don't Know
Andy,
I shot both very close together on the same lantana. Looking at the metadata on these photos, they were shot 10 minutes apart. As I often find nymphs & adults of other insects on a plant at the same time, my logic concluded, albeit falsely, these hoppers were related.
Thanks
Robert
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 26 May, 2009 - 12:45pm login or register to post comments

Please see...
Thionia simplex

and read the comment by Dr. Hamilton on this image;
… Ron M., 25 May, 2009 - 2:09pm login or register to post comments

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