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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) » Clastopterid Spittlebugs (Clastopteridae) » Clastoptera » obtusa complex (Clastoptera obtusa complex) » Alder Spittlebug (Clastoptera obtusa)
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Alder Spittlebug? - Clastoptera obtusa
Copyright © 2010 John Pearson

Alder Spittlebug? - Clastoptera obtusa
Conard Environmental Research Area (CERA), Kellogg, Jasper County, Iowa, USA
June 19, 2010
Size: ~8 mm
Lone individual resting on leaf of wood nettle in bottomland forest, encountered during CERA Insect Workshop.

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Contributed by John Pearson on 20 June, 2010 - 3:47pm
Last updated 28 February, 2021 - 1:15pm

Moved
Moved from "probably obtusa" per K.G.A. Hamilton.
… Kyle Kittelberger, 28 February, 2021 - 1:15pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Clastoptera.
… v belov, 16 February, 2013 - 10:15am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies.
… John Pearson, 21 June, 2010 - 8:19am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John Pearson, 20 June, 2010 - 4:21pm login or register to post comments

I'm thinking
it looks like a Spittlebug--maybe something in/near Clastoptera?



Dr. Hamilton will be able to say for sure.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 20 June, 2010 - 3:51pm login or register to post comments

 
Clastoptera
probably the alder spittlebug, C. obtusa (you would have to see the face to be sure)
… Andy Hamilton, 21 June, 2010 - 8:13am login or register to post comments

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