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Primarily oaks (all Quercus spp.), but recorded from many other species including: hickory and pecan (Carya spp.), beech (Fagus grandifolia), hop hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) and hawthorn (Crataegus spp.). Also recorded in small numbers from Acer, Asimia, Carpinus, Castanea, Cercis, Corylus, Ulmus and Vitis spp. (Hamilton, 1995) |
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NOTE: This can be a very challenging genus to identify for specimens that are yellow or yellow and white. There are very slight differences in the length/width of the eyes, head, and/or pronotum between species, differences that likely cannot be reliably determined from most photographs. Color and pattern wise, A. aurea is very similar to A. thoracica, a northerly Alebra that has yet to be recorded in North Carolina but could potentially occur in the mountains. Records on this page will therefore, by default, be identified as Alebra aurea until proven otherwise.
In his 1995 paper, Hamilton noted that this common and widespread species may actually be a complex of species, as local populations differ and there are forms associated with particular host plants. For example, females on Crataegus are usually as bright orange-yellow as males, and males on Fagus can have tegmina as pallid as in females, with the yellow color just confined to the margins. |
Species Photo Gallery for Alebra aurea No Common Name |
![](photos_records/2015/tnAlebra_aurea1435511321.jpg) | Photo by: Ken Childs Out Of State Co. Comment: | ![](photos_records/2014/tnAlebra_aurea1401617727.JPG) | Photo by: Paul Scharf Warren Co. Comment: Attracted to Black Light and stayed throughout the day. |
![](photos_records/2014/tnAlebra_aurea1401617758.JPG) | Photo by: Paul Scharf Warren Co. Comment: Attracted to Black Light and stayed throughout the day. | ![](photos_records/2014/tnAlebra_aurea1401617795.JPG) | Photo by: Paul Scharf Warren Co. Comment: Attracted to Black Light and stayed throughout the day. |
![](photos_records/2018/06/tnAlebra_aurea1529456052_0.jpg) | Photo by: Randy L Emmitt Orange Co. Comment: | ![](photos_records/2019/08/tnAlebra_aurea1564710019.jpg) | Photo by: Rob Van Epps Mecklenburg Co. Comment: Came to UV light in back yard. |
![](photos_records/2015/10/tnAlebra_aurea1444078181.jpg) | Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Paul Scharf, Brian Bockhahn Ashe Co. Comment: Dr. Hamilton's comments, "Probably A. thoracica, but to be sure one needs to make careful measurements of the proportions of head and thorax in exact dorsal aspect". | ![](photos_records/2021/06/tnAlebra_aurea1624288463_0.jpeg) | Photo by: Scott Bolick Forsyth Co. Comment: |
![](photos_records/2021/06/tnAlebra_aurea1624288464_1.jpeg) | Photo by: Scott Bolick Forsyth Co. Comment: | ![](photos_records/2021/06/tnAlebra_aurea1624288464_2.jpeg) | Photo by: Scott Bolick Forsyth Co. Comment: |
![](photos_records/2021/06/tnAlebra_aurea1624290655.jpeg) | Photo by: Scott Bolick Forsyth Co. Comment: | ![](photos_records/2022/06/tnAlebra_aurea1655917205_0.jpeg) | Photo by: Scott Bolick Forsyth Co. Comment: Attracted to wide spectrum growlight |
![](photos_records/2023/06/tnAlebra_aurea1687135313_0.jpg) | Photo by: Ken Kneidel Mecklenburg Co. Comment: 3.5 mm male stuck in goo on a tree band on Willow Oak | ![](photos_records/2023/06/tnunid_leafhopper1687742357_0.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper |
![](photos_records/2023/06/tnunid_leafhopper1687742358_1.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper | ![](photos_records/2023/06/tnunid_leafhopper1687742358_2.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper |
![](photos_records/2023/06/tnunid_leafhopper1687742358_3.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper | ![](photos_records/2023/06/tnAlebra_aurea1687969262_0.jpeg) | Photo by: tom ward Buncombe Co. Comment: |
![](photos_records/2023/06/tnAlebra_aurea1687969829_0.jpeg) | Photo by: tom ward Buncombe Co. Comment: | ![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1688508811_0.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper |
![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1688508811_1.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper | ![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1688692408_0.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper |
![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1688692408_1.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper | ![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1688692408_2.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper |
![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1688692708_0.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper | ![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1688692709_1.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper |
![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1688691175_0.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper | ![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1688691175_1.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper |
![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1688691270_0.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper | ![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1688691270_1.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper |
![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1688692161_0.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper | ![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1688953048_0.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper |
![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1688953048_1.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper | ![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1688953099_0.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper |
![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1688953100_1.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper | ![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1689208833_0.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper |
![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1689548914_0.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper | ![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1689548914_1.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper |
![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1689548708_0.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper | ![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1689548708_1.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper |
![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1689548709_2.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper | ![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1690073209_0.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper |
![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1690141868_0.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper | ![](photos_records/2023/08/tnunid_leafhopper1691268268_0.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper |
![](photos_records/2023/07/tnunid_leafhopper1690670452_1.JPG) | Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper | ![](photos_records/2024/07/tnAlebra_aurea1721681607_0.jpg) | Photo by: Scott Bolick Wilkes Co. Comment: |
![](photos_records/2024/07/tnAlebra_aurea1721681608_1.jpg) | Photo by: Scott Bolick Wilkes Co. Comment: | ![](photos_records/2024/08/tnAlebra_aurea1724948861.jpg) | Photo by: Scott Bolick Wilkes Co. Comment: |
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