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Black leafhopper with white streak - Graphocephala lugubris
Copyright © 2012 Jerry Friedman

Black leafhopper with white streak - Graphocephala lugubris
Santa Cruz, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, USA
July 7, 2012
Size: 3-4 mm
Collected from a sunflower leaf. Dead at this point, unfortunately.

The white streak had a symmetrical one on the other side.

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Black leafhopper with white streak - Graphocephala lugubris Black leafhopper with white streak - Graphocephala lugubris Black leafhopper with white streak - Graphocephala lugubris
Contributed by Jerry Friedman on 8 July, 2012 - 6:35pm
Last updated 4 April, 2020 - 12:57am

Moved tentatively
Moved from "Group" Neokolla/Keonolla.
… Kyle Kittelberger, 4 April, 2020 - 12:57am

Moved
Moved from Graphocephala hieroglyphica.
… Kyle Kittelberger, 4 April, 2020 - 12:26am

ID confirmed by K.G.A. Hamilton
Moved from Leafhoppers.
… v belov, 3 January, 2013 - 4:57pm

 
Thanks
to you and K. G. A. Hamilton, and nice job by the Balabans.
… Jerry Friedman, 3 January, 2013 - 10:41pm

Might be related to
… john and jane balaban, 10 July, 2012 - 5:28pm

 
Thanks.
That certainly looks close, and I'd noticed a similar species in Neokolla, though not as similar as the image you showed.

I meant to mention, by the way, that I think those sand-colored dots in my pictures are sand grains, not markings.
… Jerry Friedman, 10 July, 2012 - 11:48pm

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