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Ricaniidae
The family Ricaniidae is a group of hemipteran insects, containing over 40 genera and 400 species world-wide. Thus, they are one of the smaller families in the planthopper superfamily (Fulgoroidea). The highest diversity is in tropical Africa and Asia and in Australia, with a few species occurring in the Palearctic.
Spotted on Sep 19, 2012
Submitted on Mar 30, 2013
27 Comments (1–25)
purple! i love! great find
Beautiful!
That's beautiful! Awesome find!!
I saw this the other day but forgot to congratulate you on SOTD! Gorgeous colors. Congratulations!!!!
Congratulations, on the SOTD, dotun55. Fantastic purple plant-hopper.
Congrats...very cool insect!
Congratulations dotun55!
What a fantastic planthopper, dotun!! Congratulations on an awesome and well-deserved spotting of the day!
Congrats on this wonderful sotd!
Yes!!! Congratulations !!
Great capture Dotun,congrats on the SOTD and thanks for sharing such a beautiful spotting page
Congratulations dotun !
What an unusual beauty! Congratulations on your SOTD!
Congrats dotun!
Thank you. Happy Easter :)
Congratulations great spot !
Beautiful :) and congrats!
Congratulations dotun - so happy for you. This is a lovely planthopper and a rare royal color.
Congratulations dotun55 on this wonderful spotting and SOTD!
Whoa! Isn't this very ironic? It is one of the items one attaches small importance to that brings great fortune. "Let me just put these ones up to be seen" was the thought before logging off, in the same vein I uploaded it to Flickr for ID weeks earlier. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotun55/8569220999/in/photostream]
The 'alien' came along way when I went looking out for regular insects (butterflies, moths, flies, grasshoppers) on the hedge. It was stunning especially with lucid wings the fluffy tail (I'd never seen it before). Good thing I secured these fair-enough images before it vanished mysteriously into the thin air, just as it had appeared from it. Until now, who knew that there's such thing as planthopper?
Thanks everyone! (...KarenL and Argy Bee for extra details)
Congrats dotun55. It's so beautiful!
Congratulations. This one still has some fluffy tail from nymphal phase.
Congrats! Great spotting dotun! Planthopper with purple color! Amazing!
Congrats dotun, this colorful planthopper has earned you your first spotting of the day!
There are around 400 species of Ricaniidae planthoppers world-wide; this beauty was spotted in Nigeria.
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Nice colors!!!