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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) » Fulgoroidea » Flatid Planthoppers (Flatidae) » Flatinae » Nephesini » Ormenoides » Ormenoides venusta
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Flatid planthopper with mites - Ormenoides venusta
Copyright © 2013 Maria de Bruyn

Flatid planthopper with mites - Ormenoides venusta
Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina, USA
July 4, 2013
I am guessing these red dots are mites and that it is not a symbiotic relationship.

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Flatid planthopper with mites - Ormenoides venusta Flatid planthopper with mites - Ormenoides venusta
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Contributed by Maria de Bruyn on 5 July, 2013 - 9:40am
Last updated 12 July, 2013 - 7:36pm

Moved
Moved from Free-living Hemipterans.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 12 July, 2013 - 5:32pm login or register to post comments

Ormenoides venusta
The mites just hitch a ride; they will attach themselves to any insect.
… Andy Hamilton, 12 July, 2013 - 8:55am login or register to post comments

 
mites hitching a ride
So the mites do not cause any damage to the plant hopper? They're just lazy? ;>)
… Maria de Bruyn, 12 July, 2013 - 6:26pm login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 5 July, 2013 - 11:21am login or register to post comments

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