Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tiny white insect

Posted by Alvesgaspar on 06-12-2007 13:56
#1
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

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-12-2007 14:03
#2
Easy:
Order > Hemiptera
Suborder > Auchenorrhyncha
Superfamily > Membracoidea
Family > Cicadellidae
Subfamily > Cicadellinae (?)

it seems to be a nymph...

Posted by Isidro on 06-12-2007 16:35
#3
a nyyyyyyymph?????????????????? ShockShockShockShockShock

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.

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-12-2007 16:37
#4
read: "seems" Pfft

Posted by Alvesgaspar on 06-12-2007 17:31
#5
Thank you, Jorge and Isidro. So, it is an adult leafhopper. Why isn't it jumping as supposed? Wink

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-12-2007 17:56
#6
because it was very scared when it saw the photographer. Pfft


they rest too... they don't jump all the time! And this "seems" ( I must put this so isidro cannot confuse Pfft lol) to clean itself. :Smile see the middle legs. Wink


Posted by Isidro on 06-12-2007 23:58
#7
hehehe Pfft well, in any case, it's not cleaning itself, and this is the normal position of the third pair of legs Wink

Posted by Juergen Peters on 07-12-2007 01:08
#8
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).