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Chaetophyes sp.
A very small hopper with mottled brown and white body, yellow-green head and orange eyes. 8mm long.
On acacia leaf in public parkland.
Looking at C.admittens http://lifeunseen.com/index2_item_1252.p... C.compacta http://eol.org/pages/1080696/overview C.vicina http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/cercopid... Also see 'mimic' hoppers from same plant http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/165...
Spotted on Nov 23, 2012
Submitted on Nov 23, 2012
4 Comments
Thanks Argy! I appreciate that! Keep on looking for the hoppers!
Thanks so much Jason. That was a bit lax of me. I should have noticed the scoopy motor-boat head shape differences too. Sorry about the rotten photos - I might get a real camera for Christmas! :) Love your work at planthopper.com by the way.
Hi! Actually, I believe that this is not a leafhopper, but rather a spittlebug in the family Machaerotidae (the tube-making spittlebugs). If I had to gues, I'd call this Chaetophyes vicina...but difficult to tell from the photos
Awesome Hopper, Argy! I'd love for you to add this to my global Hoppers mission: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8096... :)