description |
A distinctively marked leafhopper with a broad, bluntly rounded vertex. The wings are mostly colored with large brownish patches outlined in black, on top of a white background; there is a small yellowish patch on the bottom middle of the wing. The head is mostly white while the pronotum has two large transverse brownish "bricks"; the scutellum has several small black marks. The face has two black transverse bands. The legs are bicolored with black bases and the rest pale. The male subgenital plates are broad at the base, convexly rounding to blunt apexes. The female pregenital sternite has the posterior margin concavely, roundedly produced, forming a broad median tooth. Adults are 4.5-5.25 mm long (Oman 1934), (DeLong & Hershberger 1946) |
Species Photo Gallery for Sanctanus cruciatus No Common Name |
| Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn Washington Co. Comment: open forest habitat, at visitor center | | Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn Washington Co. Comment: open forest habitat, at visitor center |
| Photo by: Paul Scharf Warren Co. Comment: Attracted to Black Light | | Photo by: Paul Scharf Warren Co. Comment: Attracted to Black Light |
| Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn, Paul Scharf Halifax Co. Comment: grassy area and mixed hardwood forest edge | | Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn, Paul Scharf Halifax Co. Comment: grassy area and mixed hardwood forest edge |
| Photo by: Paul Scharf Warren Co. Comment: Attracted to Black Light | | Photo by: Ken Childs Out Of State Co. Comment: |
| Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Paul Scharf Beaufort Co. Comment: open, grassy habitat surrounded by pine and mixed hardwood forest | | Photo by: Ken Childs Out Of State Co. Comment: |
| Photo by: Ken Childs Out Of State Co. Comment: | | Photo by: Mark Shields Onslow Co. Comment: |
| Photo by: Mark Shields Onslow Co. Comment: | | Photo by: J. B. Sullivan Carteret Co. Comment: regenerated farmland; male |
| Photo by: J. B. Sullivan Carteret Co. Comment: regenerated farmland; male | | Photo by: Lior Carlson Orange Co. Comment: |
| Photo by: Lior Carlson Orange Co. Comment: |