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Cicadellidae - Gyponana

Cicadellidae - Gyponana
Nevada, Story County, Iowa, USA
October 1, 2009
Size: 10+ mm
Gyponana sp perhaps.
Caught on prairie cordgrass, Spartina pectinata, along with several other insects (Blissidae, Phalacridae).
Every single cordgrass seed was eaten, by something.

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Moved from Gyponana.

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Moved from Leafhoppers.

Gyponana
Probably just resting on the grass - this genus is not a grass feeder, and it certainly didn't chew up all the seeds, because it has no jaws.

 
Thanks.
Sometimes the obvious eludes me.
From the Phalacridid larvae/pupa I found inside other species of grass seed, they would be my guess (of the insects I collected on the cord grass). I need to collect earlier in the year to find larvae eating seed.

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Moved from ID Request.

Cicadellidae
are a mistress group for me! Love 'em!

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