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Horned Tree-hopper

Ceraon tasmaniae

Description:

A handsome little hopper about 10 mm long in shades of brown. It had two flattened upright and laterally pointing horns and one horizontal chitinous structure running the length of the dorsal aspect of the body, between the two upright horns. The wings paled to a carmel colour along the inner margin. The horns looked like the dead and drying ends of a broken leaf stalk (pic 3 )

Habitat:

Spotted on Acacia (wattle)

Notes:

Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha Family: Membracidae

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2 Comments

StephenSolomons
StephenSolomons 10 years ago

nice find

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Nice hat.

Leuba Ridgway
Spotted by
Leuba Ridgway

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Jan 1, 2014
Submitted on Jan 1, 2014

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