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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoromorpha) » Fulgoroidea » Tropiduchid Planthoppers (Tropiduchidae) » Elicini » Dictyobia
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Looks like an armor-plated bulldog - Dictyobia
Copyright © 2006 Ron Hemberger

Looks like an armor-plated bulldog - Dictyobia
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, California, USA
April 24, 2006

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Contributed by Ron Hemberger on 24 April, 2006 - 10:46pm
Last updated 17 August, 2007 - 2:33pm

Jet-Propelled ?
No wonder these guys can move so fast!

Seriously, that tail-tuft seems like a bizarre structure. Wonder what function it might have, or what selective pressures gave rise to it? (Seed-like camouflage? Unpalatability?)

Great shots of an interesting looking creature :-)
… Aaron Schusteff, 2 August, 2010 - 7:03pm login or register to post comments

 
issid wax tails
If you look through the files, you will see that they can spread the wax filaments like a fan. Presumably this frightens away parasites and possibly predators as well.
… Andy Hamilton, 6 May, 2013 - 10:37am login or register to post comments

 
Interesting behavioral explanation
Thanks for your response here, Andy. I found two posts among the BugGuide issids apropos to your comment that splaying the filaments might alarm and deter other insects pestering the issids:



I wouldn't have guessed that's what was happening...love to learn about those kinds of interesting tidbits.
… Aaron Schusteff, 7 May, 2013 - 12:51am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Free-living Hemipterans.
… Robin McLeod, 17 August, 2007 - 2:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from True Bugs.
… Robin McLeod, 1 February, 2007 - 1:20am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 31 January, 2007 - 11:12am login or register to post comments

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