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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Psylloidea » Triozidae » Trioza » Trioza albifrons
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Aphididae? 6-12-10 01a - Trioza albifrons
Copyright © 2010 Karl Volkman

Aphididae? 6-12-10 01a - Trioza albifrons
Barrett Creek, Ferry County, Washington, USA
June 12, 2010
Masses of small hemipterans? feeding on nettles in the evening

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Aphididae? 6-12-10 01a - Trioza albifrons Aphididae? 6-12-10 01b - Trioza albifrons
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Contributed by Karl Volkman on 25 June, 2010 - 11:14pm
Last updated 30 May, 2015 - 1:05am

Moved
Moved from Triozidae.
… Chris Mallory, 30 May, 2015 - 1:05am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Psylloidea.
… Chris Mallory, 28 May, 2015 - 6:39pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
Seems reasonable to me... maybe someday a psyllid specialist will come along and tell us what species feeds on nettles.
… Charley Eiseman, 3 October, 2010 - 5:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Two known nearctic species on nettle
Both in the genus Trioza (Triozidae), and I can say with confidence that the psyllids here definitely belong to that family based on wing venation visible in one psyllid in the other photo. As for possible species, there is Trioza albifrons, a 'greenish yellow' species which has a white face, and T. quadripunctata, which has "wings with four large black spots on dorsal margin easily visible to naked eye" (Crawford 1910a). Your photos show no indication of such maculation, so that rules out the latter species, but I can't really make out the face color from these photos so I can't say for sure if it's T. albifrons. Crawford's description of that species (which has indeed been recorded from Washington) is available online here (p.355), but again it's hard be make out certain characters from these photos that would confirm the ID, since I don't know if there may be undescribed Triozids from nettle.
… Chris Mallory, 14 May, 2015 - 5:06pm login or register to post comments

Perhaps Psyllids
Jumping Plant Lice, family Psyllidae. Some have a pretty distinct feeding posture where they hold up their wings as they feed, like that one on the stem.

Here's a good example from a lemon:
… Natalie Hernandez, 26 June, 2010 - 8:42am login or register to post comments

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