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A beautiful unidentified leafhopper, the "common name applied to any species from the family Cicadellidae. Leafhoppers have piercing-sucking mouthparts, enabling them to feed on plant sap. A leafhoppers' diet commonly consists of sap from a wide and diverse range of plants, but some are more host-specific. Leafhoppers mainly are herbivores, but some are known to eat smaller insects, such as aphids, on occasion." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leafhopper
Spotted along a survey transect in mixed lowland equatorial rainforest (freshwater swamp forest/sago swamp).
Spotted on Jun 14, 2012
Submitted on Aug 26, 2012
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This little beauty is actually a spittlebug in the family Cercopidae (not a leafhopper). Nice spotting!