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Eutettix slossoni - No Common Name

Eutettix slossoni
© Bo Sullivan- male		Eutettix slossoni
© Bo Sullivan- note head spots		Eutettix slossoni
© Bo Sullivan- male, note black face		Eutettix slossoni
© Cricket Raspet
Taxonomy
Family: CICADELLIDAESubfamily: DeltocephalinaeTribe: PlatymetopiiniSubgenus: Eutettix
Taxonomic Author: (Van Duzee, 1894)
Identification
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Description: A brownish species with a rounded head that has bold markings. The frons of the female is yellow with two large apical fuscous spots. In males, the frons is black with typical markings yellow. The vertex, pronotum, and scutellum are yellow with two large spots on the anterior margin of the vertex and a brown to black band across the posterior part of the pronotum. The wings of the female are semi-hyaline light fulvous with veins darkening posteriorly and darkened along the outer margin of the clavus, in the apical cells, and in the center of discal cells. Male wings are opaque black in the clavus and the adjacent area of the corium, with the outer half of the corium partly semi-hyaline and partly opaque. Both sexes have a distinct white spot at the apex of clavus. The female pregenital sternite is about twice as wide as long, with the posterior margin excavated on either side of a prominent, unnotched median lobe that extends slightly further than the rounded lateral lobes. Males are 4 mm long, females are 5 mm. (Hepner 1942)

For an image of a pinned specimen, see: BOLD.

Distribution in North Carolina
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Distribution: Eastern United States: FL, DC, TX, MA, NJ, NY, CT, GA (Metcalf 1967). Originally described from Florida.
Abundance: One recent record from the Coastal Plain.
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Comment: This species is similar to Eutettix tristis, but is more darkly colored, has distinctive male genitalia, and is smaller; both sexes are around 1.5 mm smaller than those of E. tristis. Furthermore, the frons of male E. slossoni is blackish, whereas the frons of male E. tristis is yellow.

Until dissected, records on this page for E. slossoni are tentative. The record from New Hanover County though is the more expected pattern for this species.

Status: Native
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Species Photo Gallery for Eutettix slossoni No Common Name 6

Eutettix slossoniPhoto by: chilipossum - Cricket Raspet
New Hanover Co.
Comment: iNat record: 286738005		Eutettix slossoniPhoto by: chilipossum - Cricket Raspet
New Hanover Co.
Comment: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/286738005***(c) Cricket Raspet, some rights reserved (CC BY)| Public Positional Accuracy= 28.2 Elevation=28.2 feet
Eutettix slossoniPhoto by: Bo Sullivan
Scotland Co.
Comment: male, ~5 mm; near pinewoods		Eutettix slossoniPhoto by: Bo Sullivan
Scotland Co.
Comment: male, ~5 mm; near pinewoods
Eutettix slossoniPhoto by: Bo Sullivan
Scotland Co.
Comment: male, ~5 mm; near pinewoods		Eutettix slossoniPhoto by: Bo Sullivan
Scotland Co.
Comment: male, ~5 mm; near pinewoods