Explanation of Names
Bruchomorpha rosea Doering 1940
Size
Length from tip of head to apex of abdomen 2-3.2 mm, greatest width 1-1.5 mm (Doering 1940)
Identification
easily distinguished by rosy coloring (Doering 1940)
Nasal process not so bulbous, lateral carinae converging at about base of apical seventh or eighth; reddish in color
(1)Food
host: weeping lovegrass (
Eragrostis curvula, Poaceae)
(1)See Also
Size and coloring of jocosa Stal, but easily recognized by its long nasal process as opposed to the very short one of jocosa
Print References
Doering K.C. (1940) Part III: A contribution to the taxonomy of the subfamily Issinae in America North of Mexico (Fulgoridae, Homoptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 26: 83-167. (
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