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CICADELLIDAE Members: NC Records

Limotettix instabilis - No Common Name

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Taxonomy
Family: CICADELLIDAESubfamily: Deltocephalinae
Identification
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Description: Fairly black overall with pale wing venation, pale inner wing cell areas, and some yellowish marks on the body. See here for images of specimens: BOLD.
Distribution in North Carolina
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Distribution: Throughout much of North America
Abundance: A single record from the mountains; possibly more abundant in the right habitat.
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Habitats and Life History
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Plant Associates: Bitter cherry (Prunus emarginata), chokecherry (Prunus virginiana), scarlet sumac (Rhus glabra), pussy willow (Salix discolor), weeping willow (Salix sepulcralis), Salix sp.
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Comment: This species was previously treated as a junior synonym of the Palearctic species Ophiola corniculus; old records of O. corniculus in North America apply to Limotettix plutonius and L. instabilis.
Status: Native
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