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Prosapia sp.
This black Spittle Bug is about 8 mm in length with 2 orange bands across the elytra and and an orange "V" shaped coloring along the upper inner side of the elytra. The elytra and thorax have a texture which makes it look sparkly. It looks like the 2-Lined Spittle bug (https://texasinsects.tamu.edu/two-lined-...) but differs in lacking the horizontal band across the pronotum and in lacking an orange scutellum. It also differs from a similar species collected in the same vicinity in 2016 (http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/125...) which also differs from the 2-lined Spittlebug in lacking an orange scutellum. Unless the 2-lined Spittle Bug is extremely variable phenotypically. Family Cercopidae.
Found on roadside bushes, Km. 16, Highway between San Cristobal de Las Casas and Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico.
Spotted on Nov 8, 2018
Submitted on Nov 12, 2018
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