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Erythroneura palimpsesta - No Common Name

Erythroneura palimpsesta
© Scott Bolick		Erythroneura palimpsesta
© Scott Bolick- note black wing markings
Taxonomy
Family: CICADELLIDAESubfamily: TyphlocybinaeTribe: Erythroneurini
Taxonomic Author: McAtee 1924
Identification
Online Photographs: BugGuide, GBIF  iNaturalist  Google                                                                                  
Description: A fairly distinctive species with a yellow or white dorsum and a red, orange, or brown (ranging to blackish) color pattern of oblique markings forming a continuous zigzag pattern. There is a dark spot on the costal margin of the wings, apical cell II has a distal spot, and the inner apical cell has a brown spot basally. The vertex has orange parrallel submedial lines, which often have a lateral branch; the vertex midline is pale; the face is also pale. The prontoum has Y or V-shaped markings, while the mesonotum is pale, with distinctive dark lateral triangles that, together with the dark apex, contrast with the pale areas. The underside of the thorax has a dark mesosternum, with the remainder pale. Adults are 2.8- 3.0 mm long. (Dmitriev & Dietrich, 2007)

For more images of this species, see: BG.

Distribution in North Carolina
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Distribution: Known previously from primarily the Mississippi and Ohio River Basins, west of the Appalachian mountains, and ranging west to Kansas (3I); recent records on iNaturalist from Michigan, Georgia, and North Carolina represent an expansion of the known range (the latter two records are seemingly the first from east of the Appalachians).
Abundance: Recorded recently from a one county in the piedmont, likely more abundant in this region.
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Habitats and Life History
Habitats:
Plant Associates: Lonicera sp. (3I)
Behavior: Can be attracted at night with a light.
Comment:
Status: Native
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Species Photo Gallery for Erythroneura palimpsesta No Common Name

Erythroneura palimpsestaPhoto by: Scott Bolick
Randolph Co.
Comment: Erythroneura palimpsesta, uploaded as Unidentified - unid_leafhopper		Erythroneura palimpsestaPhoto by: Scott Bolick
Randolph Co.
Comment: Erythroneura palimpsesta, uploaded as Unidentified - unid_leafhopper
Erythroneura palimpsestaPhoto by: Scott Bolick
Randolph Co.
Comment: Erythroneura palimpsesta, uploaded as Unidentified - unid_leafhopper		Erythroneura palimpsestaPhoto by: Scott Bolick
Randolph Co.
Comment: Erythroneura palimpsesta, state record
Erythroneura palimpsestaPhoto by: Scott Bolick
Randolph Co.
Comment: Erythroneura palimpsesta, state record