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Heliria strombergi - No Common Name

Heliria strombergi
© Ken Kneidel- note pronotal crest shape
Taxonomy
Family: MEMBRACIDAESubfamily: SmiliinaeTribe: Telamonini
Taxonomic Author: Goding, 1893
Identification
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Description: A pale almost uniformly gray color in females, while more mottled with brown on the metopidium and crest in males. The pronotum is long, slender acute, and the crest is long and low; the anterior lobe of the crest is an acute pyramid, distinctly one-half higher than the horizontal posterior lobe. The posterior margin slopes into the pronotum. The anterior and posterior lobes are inflated, and the humeral angles of the crest are strongly olbique and almost twice longer than wide, with bluntly rounding apices. Males are 8 mm long, while females are 10 mm long, 7 mm wide, and 4.5 mm high. (Kopp & Yonke, 1974)

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Distribution in North Carolina
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Distribution: A rare species from central and eastern United States (primarily in the Midwest region); also from New Brunswick (3I). The Mecklenburg county record would present the first record from the Southeastern United States
Abundance: Rare, a single record from the lower Piedmont.
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Habitats and Life History
Habitats: Has been found in the state in wetland edge vegetation.
Plant Associates: Black willow (Salix nigra) (Wallace, 2014)
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Status: Native
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Species Photo Gallery for Heliria strombergi No Common Name

Heliria strombergiPhoto by: Ken Kneidel
Mecklenburg Co.
Comment: pond edge, waist high vegetation nearby - unid_treehopper		Heliria strombergiPhoto by: Ken Kneidel
Mecklenburg Co.
Comment: pond edge, waist high vegetation nearby - unid_treehopper
Heliria strombergiPhoto by: Ken Kneidel
Mecklenburg Co.
Comment: pond edge, waist high vegetation nearby - unid_treehopper		Heliria strombergiPhoto by: Ken Kneidel
Mecklenburg Co.
Comment: pond edge, waist high vegetation nearby; state record