Hoppers of North Carolina

Hoppers of North Carolina:
Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, Treehoppers, and Planthoppers

Family (Alpha):

CICADELLIDAE Members:	NC Records
Alconeura macra - No Common Name

Taxonomy

Family: CICADELLIDAE

Subfamily: Typhlocybinae

Tribe: Dikraneurini

Subgenus: Alconeura

Taxonomic Author: (Griffith, 1938)

Identification

Online Photographs: BugGuide, GBIF iNaturalist
Description: A pale, creamy-white species with an orange-yellow color pattern. The vertex has an orange-yellow V-mark that is inverted from the margin; this mark touches the eyes and largely does not widen much as it extends towards the pronotum. The pronotum has four orange-yellow lines (two pairs), parallel to one another and extending across the pronotum towards the scutellum; the lateral pairs of lines are slightly connected at the anterior end and sometimes connected posteriorly. The scutellum is orange-yellow except for a small but bold anteromedian white square. There are two orange-yellow oval-shaped claval spots on each wing, one elongated mark on the side of the scutellum and the other in the middle along the commissure; when the wings are closed, the middle spots on each wing form an oval dorsal spot. There is an orange-yellow stripe that curves inward from each costal margin along the claval suture to the apical crossveins, meeting a smoky brown mark that extends from a yellowish-orange spot on the midcostal margin. The apical crossveins are yellow, bordered with dark brown; there is a bold black apical dot on the third crossvein. The wing tips are yellowish with some smoky brown tints. The underside of the body is yellowish. (Griffith, 1938) For more images of this species, see: 3I.

Distribution in North Carolina

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Out of State Record(s)

Distribution: Eastern and central United States; primarily the Southeast (3I)

Abundance: Recorded from a few counties in the Coastal Plain; probably found elsewhere in the right habitat, but likely uncommon to rare.

Seasonal Occurrence

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Habitats and Life History

Habitats: Has been found in open forest habitat near a cypress swamp.

Plant Associates: Hypericum sp. (3I)

Behavior: Can be attracted at night with a light.

Comment: Alconeura can be a very difficult genus to identify. A. macra is one of several members of this mostly western genus that occur in the eastern United States.

Status: Native

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Species Photo Gallery for Alconeura macra No Common Name
	Photo by: Rob Van Epps Mecklenburg Co. Comment: Attracted to UV light.	Photo by: Rob Van Epps Mecklenburg Co. Comment: Attracted to UV light.
	Photo by: Scott Bolick Forsyth Co. Comment:	Photo by: B. Bockhahn Onslow Co. Comment: Sweep net
	Photo by: Mark Shields Onslow Co. Comment:	Photo by: Mark Shields Onslow Co. Comment:
	Photo by: Mark Shields Onslow Co. Comment:	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Paul Scharf Gates Co. Comment:
	Photo by: Ken Childs Out Of State Co. Comment:	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Paul Scharf Gates Co. Comment:

Alconeura macra - No Common Name

Species Photo Gallery for Alconeura macra No Common Name