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Mahanarva costaricensis
Spittlebug with Golden shine.
We are finishing a Hydroelectrical powerplant and this insect was spotted on a site recently left to recover it's natural coverage.
"These families are best known for the nymph stage, which produces a cover of frothed-up plant sap resembling spit" this is an amazing fact for me as it is usually told by people living in rural areas that this froth was either frog eggs or snake spit so now I know better!
Reports are from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, so not really endemic. But the info is probably not complete.
Thanks Bayucca, If it's called "costaricensis" could it be endemic or is it just a way to call it chosen by the scientists?
Cercopidae, Mahanarva costaricensis.https://www.flickr.com/photos/29697818@N03/3182231520/
http://hemiptera-databases.org/cool/data...
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mandokid1/...
Spotted on Apr 14, 2015
Submitted on Apr 14, 2015
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