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Photo#50736
Hopper Nymph?

Hopper Nymph?
Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia, USA
May 5, 2006
Size: 1/8"+

Moved

Andy didn't react to this. Fo
Andy didn't react to this. Following the discussion with the Thionia elliptica nymph linked below, I suggest this one be moved to that species.
Cheers, Arp

What about Thionia elliptica for this one?
Okay, 14 years later ... can someone knowledgable about Issidae-nymphs maybe have a second look at this one?
The remark by Andy Hamilton (2007) below about Thionia nymphs being green, seems to hold true for some species of Thionia, but BG has images of (brown!) nymphs with Thionia elliptica that seem to be closer to the patterns on this one(?!?)
Cheers, Arp

P.S. I've contacted Andy Hamilton about this by email, so hopefully he will find the time to have a look at this.
P.P.S. I've also commented with this "Thionia elliptica" nymph to allert Kyle to the issue, as the IDs by Andy and Kyle seem to contradict each other.
P.P.P.S. Just found the reference that Kyle may have been referring to:
Wheeler, A.G. Jr.; Wilson, Stephen W. (1987) Life History of the Issid Planthopper Thionia elliptica (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) with Description of a New Thionia Species from Texas. - Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol.95(3), pp.440-451. (@JSTOR)

Moved
Moved from Thionia.

Thanks, Andy

Hysteropterum punctiferum
The single wax-filament "tail" shows this to be an Issid. Since we now know that Thionia nymphs are green, the only other Issid from GA is this (appropriately named) species.

Please contact me at hamiltona AT agr.gc.ca for more information.

Moved
Moved from True Bugs.

Moved

 
We're very confused by the moving of all these
homopterans to heteroptera. Robin said we're waiting on some major move by John VanDyk so Robin can reuse the term Hemiptera, but it seems these images should be on the order page, not the True Bug suborder. Are we misunderstanding something?

 
It appears that
Phillip has moved all the images from the "root" of Homoptera (soon to be renamed Hemiptera) and placed many of them in Heteroptera by mistake. A number of the images had been previously IDed beyond the suborder level but had been languishing in Homoptera for some time, so I've relocated those ones to the appropriate pages. A few (such as this one) should be returned to the "root" until we get a more definite ID. It's turning out to be a good exercise!

Issid?
I am still working on this one. Let me know by e-mail anything else you can tell me about it. Andy (hamiltona AT agr.gc.ca)

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