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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) » Clastopterid Spittlebugs (Clastopteridae) » Clastoptera » obtusa complex (Clastoptera obtusa complex) » Clastoptera ovata
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Clastoptera ovata
Copyright © 2009 John Davis

Clastoptera ovata
Stevenson, Skamania County, Washington, USA
July 29, 2009
Attracted to lights.

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Contributed by John Davis on 2 September, 2009 - 12:34pm
Last updated 14 October, 2012 - 4:39pm

Moved
Moved from Alder Spittlebug.
… John Davis, 14 October, 2012 - 4:39pm login or register to post comments

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You would have to see the face better to be sure - if the lower half of the face is black, then you are right, it's the alder spittlebug; but if the face is pale with a black band across the middle (which it what this photo suggests) then it's C. ovata, which is found only on Ceanothus velutinus (snowbrush), a common ground cover in mountainous regions of the northwest.
… Andy Hamilton, 4 September, 2009 - 1:47pm login or register to post comments

 
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Thanks, I think you are correct. I don't have any good photos, but the lower half of the face is not black. I can move it to C. ovata if you agree?
… John Davis, 4 September, 2009 - 9:03pm login or register to post comments

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