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Erythroneura palimpsesta McAtee 1924 - No Common Name     CICADELLIDAE Members: NC Records Public View


© Scott Bolick

© Scott Bolick- note black wing markings

© Robert Deans

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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 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 couple counties in the piedmont, likely more abundant in this region.
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plant associates Lonicera sp. (3I)
behavior Can be attracted at night with a light.
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adult_id Unmistakable and widely known Identifiable from good quality photos of unworn specimens
Identifiable from photos showing undersides, or other specialized views [e.g., legs, face]
Identifiable only by close inspection of structural features or by DNA analysis NULL
nymph_id Unmistakable and widely known Identifiable from good quality photos, especially where associated with known host plants
Identifiable from close inspection of specimens or by DNA analysis
Identifiable only through rearing to adulthood NULL
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tribe Erythroneurini
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Species Photo Gallery for Erythroneura palimpsesta No Common Name

Photo by: Scott Bolick
Randolph Co.
Comment: Erythroneura palimpsesta, uploaded as Unidentified - unid_leafhopper
Photo by: Scott Bolick
Randolph Co.
Comment: Erythroneura palimpsesta, uploaded as Unidentified - unid_leafhopper
Photo by: Scott Bolick
Randolph Co.
Comment: Erythroneura palimpsesta, uploaded as Unidentified - unid_leafhopper
Photo by: Scott Bolick
Randolph Co.
Comment: Erythroneura palimpsesta, state record
Photo by: Scott Bolick
Randolph Co.
Comment: Erythroneura palimpsesta, state record
Photo by: Robert Deans
Forsyth Co.
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Photo by: Robert Deans
Forsyth Co.
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