description |
This species is grayish-white and light brown overall, with a white crown that has a thin brown marginal line and a yellowish-orange transverse band between the eyes. The face is pale, yellowish with a couple brown transverse lines below the crown. The pronotum is pale grayish-white with a central transverse whitish bar; the apex of the pronotum is orange and there is a disurpted, less bold orange transverse band closer to the scutellum (sometimes it spans across the basal half of the pronotum). The scutellum is somewhat bicolored, wht the upper half orange and the rest appears as a white triangle. The wings are light brown and grayish-white, with white cells near the tips and middle; wing venation is dark. The underside is pale, with the female pregenital sternite whitish with a dark brown medial area on the rear; it is greatly produced posteriorly. Adult males are 4.6-5.0 mm long, while females are around 5.2-5.8 mm. (Barnett 1976) |
Species Photo Gallery for Scaphoideus crassus No Common Name |
| Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn Orange Co. Comment: female | | Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn Orange Co. Comment: female |
| Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger Wake Co. Comment: near mixed hardwood forest | | Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger Wake Co. Comment: near mixed hardwood forest |
| Photo by: Paul Scharf Warren Co. Comment: Attracted to Light | | Photo by: Paul Scharf Warren Co. Comment: Attracted to Light |
| Photo by: Paul Scharf Warren Co. Comment: Attracted to Light | | Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger Out Of State Co. Comment: female; NCSU specimen |
| Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger Out Of State Co. Comment: female; NCSU specimen | | Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger Out Of State Co. Comment: NCSU specimen; male |
| Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger Wake Co. Comment: NCSU specimen | | Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger Wake Co. Comment: NCSU specimen |
| Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger Out Of State Co. Comment: NCSU specimen | | Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger Out Of State Co. Comment: NCSU specimen |
| Photo by: Rob Van Epps Mecklenburg Co. Comment: Attracted to black light in woods. | | Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger Wake Co. Comment: female; 5.2 mm long |
| Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger Wake Co. Comment: female; 5.2 mm long | | Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger Wake Co. Comment: female; 5.2 mm long |
| Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger Wake Co. Comment: female | | Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger Wake Co. Comment: female |
| Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger Wake Co. Comment: female | | Photo by: Scott Bolick Forsyth Co. Comment: Attracted to light |
| Photo by: Scott Bolick Forsyth Co. Comment: Attracted to light | | Photo by: Ken Kneidel Mecklenburg Co. Comment: 5.2 mm female caught in a sweep through tall weedy vegetation around a marsh |
| Photo by: Ken Kneidel Mecklenburg Co. Comment: 5.2 mm female caught in a sweep through tall weedy vegetation around a marsh | | Photo by: Ken Kneidel Mecklenburg Co. Comment: 5.2 mm female caught in a sweep through tall weedy vegetation around a marsh |
| Photo by: Scott Bolick Randolph Co. Comment: Attracted to Light |