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Scaphoideus procerus - No Common Name

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Taxonomy
Family: CICADELLIDAESubfamily: DeltocephalinaeTribe: ScaphoideiniSubgenus: Scaphoideus
Taxonomic Author: DeLong & Knull, 1971
Identification
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Description: Generally light brown in color [in the male], with the white crown having a dark brown, apically-interrupted and reflexed anterior marginal line; the transverse brown bar between the ocelli has medial anterior production and the posterior margin has a brown medial area. The eyes are probably red, the face is yellow, and there are two complete and several incomplete dark brown lines below the crown margin. The pronotum is yellow with a the central cruciate and posterior marginal areas white. The scutellum is yellow with alternating white and dark brown areas along the lateral margin. The forewings have the anterior fourth yellow, and the veins are slightly darker. The coxae are dark brown. The abdominal sterna three to five are dark brown. The male subgenital plates are triangular, bluntly pointed at the apices, and have about four large setae along the lateral margins. The female is unknown. (Barnett 1976)
Distribution in North Carolina
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Distribution: Known only from North Carolina
Abundance: Recorded from a single county in the Piedmont.
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Status: Native
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