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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) » Leafhoppers and Treehoppers (Membracoidea) » Typical Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) » Deltocephalinae » Shovelhead Leafhoppers (Hecalini) » Hecalus » Hecalus curtus
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Hecalus - Hecalus curtus - female
Copyright © 2011 Mike Quinn

Hecalus - Hecalus curtus - Female
Doolittle Prairie State Preserve, 3 km S. Story City,, Story County, Iowa, USA
July 30, 2011
Hecalus sp. (a teneral female)
Det. Andy Hamilton, 2011

Collected sweeping prairie plants during the BugGuide Gathering_2011

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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 9 August, 2011 - 4:45pm
Last updated 13 April, 2020 - 2:20pm

Moved tentatively
Moved from Hecalus.

Keys out to this species per Hamilton (2000), with head as wide across eyes as the pronotum and the length of the head shorter (barely) than the midline of the pronotum. This species is known from Kansas and Colorado (maybe Illionis too).
… Kyle Kittelberger, 13 April, 2020 - 2:20pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Leafhoppers.
… Mike Quinn, 10 August, 2011 - 12:59pm login or register to post comments

Hecalus
a recently molted female
… Andy Hamilton, 10 August, 2011 - 12:31pm login or register to post comments

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