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Dictyopharid planthopper

Truncatomeria viridistigma

Description:

Endemic to Sri Lanka ......... First known as Centromeria viridistigma. According to a recent revision done by Dr. Zhi-Shun Song and Al-Ping Liang at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, it now goes as Truncatomeria viridistigma. The new genus is endemic to Sri Lanka and is a monotypic one, which means there is only a single species that belong to it, which is T. viridistigma.

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Dictyopharid planthopper
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21 Comments

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 10 years ago

You're welcome Bhagya !

Bhagya Herath
Bhagya Herath 10 years ago

Thanks a lot Sau .... yep im so happy too.....

Saumya Wanniarachchi
Saumya Wanniarachchi 10 years ago

Loveeeeeeeeeeeee it ! :) Such a cute hopper ! And happy that its endemic ! :)

Bhagya Herath
Bhagya Herath 10 years ago

Thanks for the mission suggestion Cindy .... added to it.....

Bhagya Herath
Bhagya Herath 10 years ago

Thank you so much for your great help Scott..... :-)

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 10 years ago

Yes it is an endemic. See the map http://hemiptera-databases.org/flow/?pag... Here is another link
http://gallicissa.blogspot.com/2011/01/a... :-)

Bhagya Herath
Bhagya Herath 10 years ago

Thank you Sew....

Sew
Sew 10 years ago

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah...bhagi sooo nice dear...

Bhagya Herath
Bhagya Herath 10 years ago

Thanks again bayucca

Bhagya Herath
Bhagya Herath 10 years ago

Yep Cha just as we discussed .....

Bhagya Herath
Bhagya Herath 10 years ago

Thanks a lot for the ID Scott.... im confused a little Scott no much information is available on this fellow is he an endemic one to Sri Lanka ? if you can please help me find more information
thanks again

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Oh, I see, a Dictyopharidae! :-)...
Thanks, Scott!

Chamalka Dulmini
Chamalka Dulmini 10 years ago

wow !!!really he has a same color ne Bhagi!!!

dotun55
dotun55 10 years ago

Has looks of a cicada

Please consider adding this to the global mission, The Hoppers: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8096...

Bhagya Herath
Bhagya Herath 10 years ago

Thank you so much bayucca ...

Bhagya Herath
Bhagya Herath 10 years ago

yep Adi .... Thanks.....

Adarsha B S
Adarsha B S 10 years ago

So colorful :)

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Yes, planthopper. Dictyopharidae??? Not sure!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictyophar...

Bhagya Herath
Bhagya Herath 10 years ago

Thank you Dilan.....

Dilan Chathuranga
Dilan Chathuranga 10 years ago

Beautiful one Bhagya!!!

Bhagya Herath
Spotted by
Bhagya Herath

Kandy CP, Sri Lanka

Spotted on Nov 23, 2013
Submitted on Nov 26, 2013

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