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Scaphoideus nigricans - No Common Name

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Taxonomy
Family: CICADELLIDAESubfamily: DeltocephalinaeTribe: ScaphoideiniSubgenus: Latenus
Taxonomic Author: Osborn, 1911
Identification
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Description: A brown species, with the crown white with a brown, apically interrupted anterior margin line. The brown area fades to orange-yellow and then white posteriorly, occupying space between the eyes, and there is a brown central anteriorly quadrate area. The eyes are brown with a white longitudinal line, and the face is a light brown; there is a white marginal line between the ocelli and four white lines below the crown margin. The pronotum is brown with a central transverse white translucent area that ends with a white spot. The scutellum is light brown with the lateral margins black, white, and with black spots. The forewings are a copper-red to brownish-orange color with some white translucent and brown areas; the veins are brown. The coxae are brown. The abdominal terga are dark brown dorsally, laterally, and ventrally, with some yellow areas. Sterna three to six are dark brown while sterna five and six have a longitudinal white line; the seventh sternum is white with the posterior central area brown to black. The female pregenital sternite is broadly rounded and not notched posteriorly, with a relative straight-ish posterior margin. The adult female is 6.3 mm long. (Barnett 1976)
Distribution in North Carolina
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Distribution: Known only from North Carolina
Abundance: Rare, only conclusively known from the holotype in Wake County.
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Habitats: Unknown
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Comment: Barnett noted the following regarding specimens labeled as this species: "Known only from the type as I consider the species. The allotype is damaged but appears to be S. torqus and is very different from the type. DeLong associated other specimens with this species, but I do not consider these valid associations" (Barnett 1976). Therefore we are not including the allotype (from the Black Mountains) under this species.
Status: Native
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