Description: A fulvous to brown and greenish species. The crown is described as fulvous, sometimes darkest on the disc with a thin light line along the anterior margin, long arcuate light vitta on either side of the median suture, and usually two pairs of light, large dots along the posterior margin of the crown. The pronotum is usually darker than the crown, with reddish-brown basal triangles; vittae are usually faintly indicated. The scutellum is about the same color as the crown. The face is yellow to fulvous. The forewings are opaque fulvous to reddish-fulvous with white aeroles at the apex of the clavus and corium; the veins are fuscous. The male subgenital plates are triangular and shorter than the pygofers, gradually sloping to bluntly pointed apices. The female pregenital sternite is roundedly produced on the posterior margin. Adult males are 4.5 mm long, females are 5 mm. This species however can vary a great deal in size and color and even genitalia; the distinctive characters include the brownish, almost opaque wings and the fulvous face (Hepner 1947, DeLong 1948). Some individuals have a yellowish-green to greenish crown and face.
For additional images of this species, see: BG. For images of three pinned specimens showcasing the range in variation in coloration, see: BOLD.
Nymphs are greenish-yellow with a broken whitish midline, symmetrical white spots across the abdominal segments, and a long head. |
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