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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) » Typical Spittlebugs (Aphrophoridae) » Aphrophorinae » Philaenini » Neophilaenus » Lined Spittlebug (Neophilaenus lineatus)
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Spittlebug Nymph - Neophilaenus lineatus
Copyright © 2010 Jomegat

Spittlebug Nymph - Neophilaenus lineatus
Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA
June 5, 2010
Size: ~4mm
I fished this guy out of his spittle nest this evening. According to Wikipedia, there are five families of spittlebug. According to Kaufman & Eaton's Field Guide to Insects of North America, there are 54 species in the US & Canada. Any idea which species this one belongs to? It was on a blade of grass, but I don't know the species of grass either.
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Contributed by Jomegat on 5 June, 2010 - 9:37pm
Last updated 7 June, 2010 - 5:41pm

Moved
Moved from nymphs.
… John F. Carr, 7 June, 2010 - 5:41pm login or register to post comments

Neophilaenus lineatus
Probably the common grass-inhabiting species of the eastern states, although individual meadow spittlebugs sometimes stray onto grasses.

Wikipedia is out of date - there are three families of Cercopoidea: the neotropical Epipygidae (adults non-feeding; nymphs unknown), true spittlebugs (Cercopidae including "Aphrophoridae") and inefficient spittlebugs (Clastopteridae) and (in the old-world) tube builders (subfamily Machaerotidae).
… Andy Hamilton, 7 June, 2010 - 9:16am login or register to post comments

Neophilaenus lineatus
sorry, duplicate comment
… Andy Hamilton, 7 June, 2010 - 9:16am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John F. Carr, 6 June, 2010 - 9:06am login or register to post comments

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