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Photo#844462
Black planthopper with a few light spots - Cixidia opaca
Copyright © 2013 Bob Webster

Black planthopper with a few light spots - Cixidia opaca
Pryor, Mayes County, Oklahoma, USA
September 18, 2013
Size: 9.5 mm
Epiptera opaca?

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Black planthopper with a few light spots - Cixidia opaca Black planthopper with a few light spots - Cixidia opaca
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Contributed by Bob Webster on 19 September, 2013 - 10:04pm
Last updated 7 October, 2013 - 10:42am

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actually, recorded in OK...
...per(1) --see here

Moved from Free-living Hemipterans.
… v belov, 7 October, 2013 - 10:42am login or register to post comments

nice find; opaca looks like a perfect match to me...
...but i'm not sure it ranges that far west. let's see what Dr Hamilton has to say.

Moved from Planthoppers.
… v belov, 20 September, 2013 - 9:43am login or register to post comments

 
Epiptera opaca
new state record; previously found as far west as IL
… Andy Hamilton, 7 October, 2013 - 10:16am login or register to post comments

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