Red-eyed something - Heterotrioza chenopodii

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… Chris Mallory, 27 May, 2015 - 4:54pm

Wonder if it might be Heterotrioza (=Trioza) chenopodii

A paleartic species recently introduced into North America; as far as I know, that's the only species recorded in North America with Chenopodium as a host. There's an image here and here and an illustration of the 5th instar nymph in Ossiannilsson's The Psylloidea (Homoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark (1992). Everything looks good, but the only thing that makes me hesitate is that yours has much longer marginal setae than either of those. Playing conservatively, the anteriorly-projecting forewing pads gets this at least as far as to family Triozidae.

… Chris Mallory, 27 May, 2015 - 1:15am

Wow!

That's very similar! And for your information, I had these adult Psyllidae on lambsquarters in that area 5 years ago and that adult image in the link is similar too!

… Yurika Alexander, 27 May, 2015 - 9:47am

Perfect!

The combination of both adults and nymphs on this plant that both agree with the species' description pretty much nails the ID. According to Wheeler 1997, only two other neartic psyllids are found on Chenopodiaceae: Craspedolepta pulchella on Russian Thistle (Salsola), and C. suaedae on Suaeda. The former has maculate wings, and the latter is in the guide here and is obviously quite different. Both of these are southwestern, and belong to a different family entirely which is easily ruled by your photos. That essentially means that H. chenopodii is the only option, and Wheeler's description of the adults matches yours perfectly (according to that description, by the way, the lightly-colored adult is a younger individual than the dark one; apparently this is an age difference and not a sex difference. If I had to guess, they both look like females to me (but don't quote me on that)).

… Chris Mallory, 27 May, 2015 - 4:53pm

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… v belov, 31 August, 2014 - 12:34pm

Whitefly scale

Looks like a whitefly scale to me. Does it move?

… Beth Close, 7 August, 2014 - 11:31am

I don't think it was moving...

I looked into whitefly larvae images and I don't see eyes on them so...
I was thinking something like these...

… Yurika Alexander, 7 August, 2014 - 1:19pm