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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) » Sharpshooters (Cicadellinae) » Cicadellini » Graphocephala » subgenus Hordnia (Graphocephala subgenus Hordnia) » Blue-green Sharpshooter (Graphocephala atropunctata)
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Unk. Homopteran - Graphocephala atropunctata
Copyright © 2005 Patrick Alexander

Unk. Homopteran - Graphocephala atropunctata
Whitewater Canyon, Catron County, New Mexico, USA
December 25, 2004
There were a bunch of these guys on Quercus grisea.
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Contributed by Patrick Alexander on 3 November, 2005 - 10:58pm
Last updated 4 November, 2005 - 6:18pm

Hordnia atropunctata
A green variety of the blue sharpshooter.
… Andy Hamilton, 4 November, 2005 - 7:28am login or register to post comments

 
WOW!
Gee! How many varieties are there for this species?!
… Brittanie McCormack, 13 July, 2006 - 1:42pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks! This is the thing la
Thanks! This is the thing labelled as Hordnia atropunctata on here, right? I noticed there's the blue sharpshooter (Oncometopia) & blue-green sharpshooter (Hordnia), and this sure looks like the latter.

Patrick Alexander
http://boechera.nmsu.edu/~paalexan/
… Patrick Alexander, 4 November, 2005 - 3:53pm login or register to post comments

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