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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) » Cixioidea » Delphacid Planthoppers (Delphacidae) » Delphacinae » Delphacini » Bostaera » Bostaera nasuta
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Bostaera nasuta Ball - Bostaera nasuta
Copyright © 2011 Mike Quinn

Bostaera nasuta Ball - Bostaera nasuta
Brackenridge Field Laboratory (BFL), University of Texas at Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
August 27, 1992
Size: ~5 mm
Det. A. Hamilton, 2011

coll'ed by J. E. Gillaspy

spmn in the UTIC, Austin, TX (1)
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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 10 July, 2011 - 4:40pm
Last updated 24 August, 2017 - 2:54pm

Moved
Moved from Free-living Hemipterans.
… Mike Quinn, 11 July, 2011 - 8:00am login or register to post comments

Bostaera nasuta
This very distinctive genus - the only Delphacid with obliquely truncate wings, and head much wider than the thorax (please post a dorsal view, too!) - is one of the curiosities of the world fauna. Close relatives have been found in Palestine, Spain and Namibia (!) as long as 100 years ago, which seems to rule out human transport. Absolutely nothing is known about its biology, and collections seldom have more than 1 or 2 specimens.

There is a smaller relative in the SE USA as well (B. balli).
… Andy Hamilton, 11 July, 2011 - 7:30am login or register to post comments

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