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03-11-2007, 11:14 PM
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| |  Insects to ID please
Hi there,
Are these Leafhoppers? If so, are they the same species at different life stages, or are they different species? The squares on the paper are 2mm.   
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Steve. |
04-11-2007, 01:41 AM
| | Wild Member | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Redditch, West Midlands
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| | | Re: Insects tp ID please
ok.... and tell me if im wrong someone, ive actually used a taxonomy database and i think... ive whittled it down from 82 possible species, to 1...
cicadellinae cicadellini.... i think
probably wrong but... i tried lol! the light green one is a nymph im sure... |
04-11-2007, 08:23 AM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: West Sussex
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| | | Re: Insects tp ID please
well i'm not brave enough to even try and get these to species but as far as i'm aware only adults have fully developed wings. That would mean you have two different species.
Ashe |
04-11-2007, 10:27 AM
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| | | Re: Insects tp ID please
Definitely both leafhoppers (Cicadellidae). The smaller one looks to me like an Empoasca species, possibly the common E. vitis which has similar white markings. The second is - I think! - an idiocerid, probably Idiocerus sp. With many leafhoppers (and there are a few hundred in the UK!), you need microscopic features to identify them, but the host plant can often help a lot and should always be noted. These are nice photos, though, and it's great to have the scale so neatly! :-) |
04-11-2007, 05:41 PM
| | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Newhaven, East Sussex
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| | | Re: Insects to ID please
That's great guys - thank you! 
I didn't realise there were so many species. I know nothing about leafhoppers and other tiny little insects, but I have a fascination mainly because they are so easily overlooked. I hope to lean about them as and when I come across them.
These individuals were visitors to my light trap (you can tell when there aren't that many moths because I start looking at other things!).
Cheers,
Steve. |
04-11-2007, 08:37 PM
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| | | Re: Insects to ID please
I can sympathise entirely with the attraction of these things - it's because they're both so overlooked and stunningly photogenic that I've started getting into them too. Well worth looking into further, but it's hard getting any useful identification guides (the only good ones I've heard of that don't need dissection are in German).
The bigger one is Kybos sp., by the way. Don't know why I didn't spot it before, because the pattern is quite distinctive. Ho-hum. | | |
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