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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) » Leafhoppers and Treehoppers (Membracoidea) » Typical Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) » Deltocephalinae » Paralimnini » Paralimnina » Latalus » Latalus sayii
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Cicadellidae, dorsal - Latalus sayii
Copyright © 2009 MJ Hatfield

Cicadellidae, dorsal - Latalus sayii
Iowa, USA
Size: 3 mm
Unfortunately I caught it alive, October 12, 2009, inside my pick-up truck, more than a month after I had been collecting on hill prairie remnants in NE Iowa.

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 8 December, 2009 - 6:43pm
Last updated 10 January, 2015 - 5:28pm

Moved
Moved from Polyamia dilata.
… Charley Eiseman, 17 December, 2009 - 8:22pm login or register to post comments

Date
Perhaps it would be better to remove the date from the data field and mention it only in the text. You don't really know when it was still alive and at its home.
… Beatriz Moisset, 9 December, 2009 - 9:01am login or register to post comments

 
Your call
but I did catch it alive in the pickup on October 12.
… MJ Hatfield, 9 December, 2009 - 9:31am login or register to post comments

 
Oh!
I see now.
… Beatriz Moisset, 9 December, 2009 - 10:08am login or register to post comments

 
Except
I don't know anything about their requirements for life and I think 5 weeks is a long time to survive without any necessities. So I am perplexed (pretty much pertetual state for me).
… MJ Hatfield, 9 December, 2009 - 10:53am login or register to post comments

 
You are not the only one
Apparently very little is known about what these creatures feed on, other than leaf hoppers feed on plant sap. A little googling shows that members of this genus feed on grasses (that is something).
… Beatriz Moisset, 9 December, 2009 - 11:03am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Polyamia.
… Charley Eiseman, 8 December, 2009 - 10:57pm login or register to post comments

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