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Bathylus albicinctus
About 6 mm long, this dark brown spittle bug looked like a small stout beetle with a median crest. Its brown eyes were set apart like other spittle bugs. The underside of the head was rounded and pale. Each fore wing showed a diagonal white marking.
Spotted on Dianella caerulea (Blue flax-lily), beside several mounds of "cuckoo-spit" which are the spittle shelters protecting nymphs of these bugs.
This is an adult of nymphs seen in this spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/401... The adult was seen in the same patch of Dianella as the nymphs in the previous spotting. An exciting find !! These are hemipterans from the Family: Aphrophoridae. This species of spittle bug are known to be associated with herbaceous plants.
Spotted on Oct 15, 2013
Submitted on Oct 15, 2013
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Nice looking one! Thanks for adding to the mission :)