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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) » Spittlebugs (Cercopoidea) » Clastopterid Spittlebugs (Clastopteridae) » Clastoptera
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Which species of Clastoptera is this? - Clastoptera
Copyright © 2013 Cynthia Bingham Keiser

Which species of Clastoptera is this? - Clastoptera
Escondido, San Diego County, California, USA
November 6, 2013
Acacia melanoxylon tree. Only got two shots before it jumped.

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Which species of Clastoptera is this? - Clastoptera Which species of Clastoptera is this? - Clastoptera
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Contributed by Cynthia Bingham Keiser on 6 November, 2013 - 10:18pm
Last updated 28 February, 2021 - 9:38pm

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Clastoptera arizonana
There are only 2 species with 12 pronotal wrinkles across the midline; this one feeds on Acacia and has a dark band across the base of the scutellum. The other (C. lawsoni) feeds on grape and has a pale scutellum.
… Andy Hamilton, 3 December, 2013 - 3:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you Andy
Great information as always
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