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Gum tree hopper (common jassid)

Eurymela fenestrata

Description:

A larger than average black leafhopper with patterns of white dots on its wings.

Habitat:

It was looking rather lost on a lamp post.

Notes:

http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showima...

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11 Comments

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 11 years ago

Ok.. putting up a red one with bronze wing covers.

MartinL
MartinL 11 years ago

I do also think they are the same species since your spectacular blue one has identical wing dot patterns as the others. I've suspected the blue is a male display pattern. Sometimes when creatures are actively in reproduction mode, their colors become more vivid. This includes redback spiders, fish, birds (dominant male magpie is the whitest) etc.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 11 years ago

Hi Martin.. I have revisited some of my jassid communities. The blue femur ones with bronze wing covers have changed - some have got all black femurs, some have all red femurs, and some have half black and half red. Some have now got black wing covers and some not. Some have all red under-bodies and some banded red-pink. I now suspect they are probably all one species but that this species can (for whatever reasons?) change their colours quite markedly. Any thoughts?

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 11 years ago

Martin, about handling wildlife and being stung, check this:

http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/856...

MartinL
MartinL 11 years ago

Thanks alice. I'm usually willing to handle wildlife even though I get stung sometimes. I teach kids to touch. Its directly in the sun and this adds to the glow. Check this one from underneath. http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showima...
and this one by argybee (see pic #2) that glows blueish http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/934...

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 11 years ago

The glow on your hand almost makes you think it has a rosy chest. When I think about it, we have a lot of hands-on people on Noah. Were we taught not to touch things when we were little?

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 11 years ago

So nymphs at http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/850... then but blue-pants http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/934... still might be different sp.?

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 11 years ago

Wow fantastic!

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 11 years ago

I wonder where she keeps her wardrobe... :-)

MartinL
MartinL 11 years ago

I think I've got itsID argybee. This link shows red pants too. http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showima...

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 11 years ago

Hey martin I've got a theory this one regularly changes it's pants. I've seen it with blue, orange, yellow and now red.

MartinL
Spotted by
MartinL

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Apr 28, 2012
Submitted on Apr 29, 2012

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