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Flatidae
Whitish insect, about 8mm to 1cm in length. Found it on the trunk of a banana tree. A Flatid Planthopper nymph like this one - http://bugguide.net/node/view/403805, but I could not get to the genus/species level yet. Could be the nymph of the flatid in this spotting - http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/172....
Backyard.
Spotted on Feb 19, 2013
Submitted on Mar 1, 2013
2 Comments
Wow, cool! Thanks for your site, Andrea! It is the same as my spotting.
The adult hopper in your blog is a Black Planthopper or Ricaniid Planthopper (Ricania speculum). Could my spotting be an instar of this hopper?
The usual Ricaniid nymph form that I am seeing in our garden, and even here in PN, is like this - http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/168....
Is this the same as your photo without the fluffy materials? http://pureoxygengenerators.blogspot.com...