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Banana Lace-wing Bug

Stephanitis typica

Description:

Hemiptera; Tingidae; Tinginae; Tingini; Stephanitis typica Distant, 1903. "Stephanitis is a genus of lace bugs in the family Tingidae. There are at least 90 described species in Stephanitis." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephaniti... "They are called lace bugs because the pronotum and fore wings of the adult have a delicate and intricate network of divided areas that resemble lace." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tingidae

Habitat:

Spotted on a Custard Apple Tree in our front garden. This tree is called Anonas in this part of Philippines. The Scientific Name is Annona reticulata Linn.

Notes:

When I first encountered this bug, I thought that the little lace-like decorations (on each side of the pronontum) were wings.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Banana Lace-wing Bug
Stephanitis typica (Distant, 1903) Banana Lace-wing Bug, Stephanitis typica (Hemiptera: Tingidae) - 5573758


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8 Comments

John B.
John B. a year ago

Hi SukanyaDatta, Thank you. John B.

SukanyaDatta
SukanyaDatta a year ago

It is perfectly ok...and FANTASTIC that you have an ID. Please do not worry about responding immediately....sometimes weeks may go by before a person responds and sometimes people donot respond at all...maybe they have not seen ..I have had these experiences. ..but I must say I respect and really appreciate your attitude towards swift response and updates...it is lovely when someone gives you an ID and I also agree totally with the comment about helping the entire PN community. Please, please do not worry about our fellowship being affecting...it won't.

John B.
John B. a year ago

Good Morning Võ Anh Tuấn, thank you for your help in identifying this little bug for me. As you can see, I was completely lost on this one. I did not see the notification of your I.D. Suggestion until this morning. Sorry for the delay and thank you once again. Now I can get busy editing my spotting to make it look better. You know, when I get help like this I feel that it is important to update my spotting immediately because you have not only helped me, you have helped the whole P.N. community. I am sure that anyone who sees my spotting (with your I.D. on it) will have a quick reference if they come across a similar bug. It is just a great system. Thank you. Happy Spotting. John B.

John B.
John B. a year ago

Hi SukanyaDatta, Good Morning. First I must apologise for not answering your latest comment yesterday evening. I don't like talking about personal things, but I will mention something to you, in case it happens again. I would not like you to think I am rude. I am getting older now (79 years old) and my health is generally O.K., but I sometimes have little moments when things are not so good. That was the case last night and I just couldn't answer your comment - I had to go and lie down. Now, to the matter in hand; What I was trying to explain in my notes (at the bottom of my spotting page) was that when I check the "I need help with identification" box and the word "Spotting" appears, I feel a sense of being lazy by asking other people to do the research for me. Of course, I understand that is exactly the whole idea (not the lazy part). It is like waving a flag and shouting for help. So when you replaced the "Spotting" with "Arthropoda", to make me feel better about it and to give me a first step towards full identification, I was thinking to myself how thoughtful you were. Then I suddenly realized that by removing the word "Spotting", my chances of attracting much needed help were probably diminished. At that point I was not feeling very bright. So I quickly edited the "Spotting" back and went to have the necessary lay down. I forget in which play Wm. Shakespeare said "What a tangled web we weave" This entire misunderstanding is all my fault and I would ask for your understanding. I would hate to spoil the fellowship we have developed, as P.N. participants, because I did not explain myself properly. Best Regards. John B.

SukanyaDatta
SukanyaDatta a year ago

Your category picture is showing up fine. BTW.

SukanyaDatta
SukanyaDatta a year ago

No, I meant instead of spotting you could write Arthropoda...I did it for you and hope it is ok. If not, apologies and I will change it to Spotting again. Just that ...since you know it is an Arthropod...it is one step forward in identifying it.

John B.
John B. a year ago

Hi SukanyaDatta, thank you for your comment. Now I am slightly more confused. I did check Arthropods in the Category Box at the top of the page. But maybe you have seen something that I cannot see. Do I have a completely blank page there, perhaps only a picture? Because there was a brownout here and I went out to the generator to start it and when I came back, there was nothing on my page that I was working on except a picture. So I completed as much information as I could and uploaded it. But when I looked at my total number of spottings, I have 266 spottings but the total shows 268. Last week I accidentally created a draft, but it does not appear on my Spottings Page. So I cannot delete it. Now I think I may have another one that was caused by the brownout so my total is wrong. Maybe you can see something that I can't. Regards, John B.

SukanyaDatta
SukanyaDatta a year ago

Maybe say Arthropd?

John B.
Spotted by
John B.

Palauig, Central Luzon, Philippines

Spotted on Nov 30, 2018
Submitted on Jun 11, 2022

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