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 Tiny white insect
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| Alvesgaspar |
Posted on 06-12-2007 13:56
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Quite small (2-3mm) flying in swarms. I have no idea of the taxa of this tiny insect. When winter approaches and most flies disappear we start to pay attention to the little creatures... Joaquim Gaspar Lisboa |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 06-12-2007 14:03
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Easy: Order > Hemiptera Suborder > Auchenorrhyncha Superfamily > Membracoidea Family > Cicadellidae Subfamily > Cicadellinae (?) it seems to be a nymph... |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 06-12-2007 16:35
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a nyyyyyyymph??????????????????  this (very very very clearly adult!) insect can belong to so many genus very similar... Empoasca, etc... many tines, genitalia is required to the determination. |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 06-12-2007 16:37
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read: "seems"  |
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| Alvesgaspar |
Posted on 06-12-2007 17:31
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Thank you, Jorge and Isidro. So, it is an adult leafhopper. Why isn't it jumping as supposed?  |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 06-12-2007 17:56
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because it was very scared when it saw the photographer. they rest too... they don't jump all the time! And this "seems" ( I must put this so isidro cannot confuse lol) to clean itself. : see the middle legs. |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 06-12-2007 23:58
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hehehe well, in any case, it's not cleaning itself, and this is the normal position of the third pair of legs |
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 07-12-2007 01:08
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Hello! jorgemotalmeida wrote: Subfamily > Cicadellinae (?) Subfamily Typhlocybinae, could be Ribautiana tenerrima. Very numerous here (together with sister species R. debilis) at blackberry hedges, especially in autumn-spring. But Germany is not Portugal..., may be a different species. Overwinters adult (this one has wings, so it is no nymph). Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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