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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) » Microleafhoppers (Typhlocybinae) » Erythroneurini » Erasmoneura » atra complex (Erasmoneura atra complex) » Erasmoneura nigra
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Cicadellidae, dorsal - Erasmoneura nigra
Copyright © 2012 MJ Hatfield

Cicadellidae, dorsal - Erasmoneura nigra
100 Acre Wood, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
August 23, 2011
Size: 3 mm
Erythroneura perhaps.
Black lighting

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Cicadellidae, dorsal - Erasmoneura nigra Cicadellidae, lateral - Erasmoneura nigra
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 16 January, 2012 - 5:47am
Last updated 30 July, 2017 - 11:44am

Erasmoneura
leaving this here for now, tentatively. C. Dietrich says that there aren't any reliable characters to distinguish between atra and nigra, but this matches the pinned specimens with the defined oblique marks.
… Kyle Kittelberger, 23 January, 2018 - 2:32pm login or register to post comments

talk about semantics ))))
Moved from Erasmoneura atra.
… v belov, 27 January, 2012 - 11:19am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks,
I was not paying attention.
… MJ Hatfield, 27 January, 2012 - 11:52am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Leafhoppers.
… MJ Hatfield, 27 January, 2012 - 9:34am login or register to post comments

Erythroneura nigra
The oblique white marks on black wings is distinctive.
… Andy Hamilton, 27 January, 2012 - 8:56am login or register to post comments

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