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Eutettix tristis - No Common Name

Eutettix tristis
© Bo Sullivan- female		Eutettix tristis
© Bo Sullivan- note head spots and pronotal band		Eutettix tristis
© Bo Sullivan- note face coloration
Taxonomy
Family: CICADELLIDAESubfamily: DeltocephalinaeTribe: AthysaniniSubgenus: Eutettix
Taxonomic Author: (Ball, 1907)
Identification
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Description: A pale, tan species with two bold black head spots. The frons is yellow with two large separated basal black spots, with oblique markings sometimes faintly indicated. The vertex is yellow with two large black spots along the anterior margin, [usually] separated by a narrow yellow line; these spots and their separation are characteristic of this species. The pronotum is yellow except for a wide fulvous to fuscous band usually covering most of the posterior half, lighter in females (this band can be light or indistinct in some specimens), and the scutellum is yellow to fulvous. The wings are semi-hyaline fulvous with white spots at the apex of the clavus, usually darkened on both sides of this spot (these spots are not always very noticeable). The wing veins are usually concolorous with the cells but may be darkened posteriorly; the apical cells are sometimes slightly infuscated. The female pregenital sternite is less than twice as wide as the length at the middle, with almost straight anterior and lateral margins and a an unnotched median lobe on an otherwise straight posterior margin. Males are 5.5 mm long, females are 6.5 mm. (Hepner 1942)
Distribution in North Carolina
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Distribution: Scattered states throughout the eastern United States (Hepner 1942, Metcalf 1967)
Abundance: Noted in Metcalf (1967) as occurring in North Carolina, but unclear from where. A recent record from the Sandhills in the Coastal Plain.
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Habitats and Life History
Habitats: Pitch pine/scrub oak barrens (Chandler & Hamilton 2017) and similar habitats (such as those found in the NC Sandhills)
Plant Associates: Oak (Quercus spp.), such as scrub oak (Quercus ilicifolia; Chandler & Hamilton 2017)
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Status: Native
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Species Photo Gallery for Eutettix tristis No Common Name

Eutettix tristisPhoto by: Bo Sullivan
Scotland Co.
Comment: females, ~7 mm; near pinewoods		Eutettix tristisPhoto by: Bo Sullivan
Scotland Co.
Comment: females, ~7 mm; near pinewoods
Eutettix tristisPhoto by: Bo Sullivan
Scotland Co.
Comment: females, ~7 mm; near pinewoods		Eutettix tristisPhoto by: Bo Sullivan
Scotland Co.
Comment: females, ~7 mm; near pinewoods