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Blue-green Sharpshooter (Graphocephala atropunctata)
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Copyright © 2010
Arthur Scott Macmillan
"Blue-Green Sharpshooter" -
Graphocephala atropunctata
Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, California, USA
January 31, 2010
Size: around 10mm, roughly
Fairly large, and not as jumpy as the smaller species that I have come across
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Contributed by
Arthur Scott Macmillan
on 1 February, 2010 - 2:26am
Last updated 2 February, 2010 - 1:13pm
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Arthur Scott Macmillan
, 2 February, 2010 - 5:34am
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Possible Blue-green Sharpshooter...
Please see comment & thumbnail posted (mistakenly) to second image.
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Ken Wolgemuth
, 1 February, 2010 - 6:03am
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Ken's nailed it.
This is by far the most common hopper here in SoCal.
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Ron Hemberger
, 1 February, 2010 - 10:58am
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The most common?
I love the markings. I'm glad that we here in the bay area get to see them too. This one was did not seem in to big a hurry to hop which made getting a shot possible! I am going to move it to the species page. Thanks, Ron, and Ken!
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Arthur Scott Macmillan
, 2 February, 2010 - 5:33am
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We show a bunch of them here:
http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/hemipt/BlueSharpshooter.htm
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Ron Hemberger
, 2 February, 2010 - 11:26am
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What a great reference!
Very interesting learning a bit about them, and I like being able to see some of the immature individuals!
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Arthur Scott Macmillan
, 2 February, 2010 - 1:10pm
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Glad you liked it.
We have more detail there than on a lot of other pages. Butterflies are one of the site's high points, as far as descriptive material and immature/adult stuff go.
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Ron Hemberger
, 2 February, 2010 - 3:46pm
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