Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tiny white insect
Posted by Alvesgaspar on 06-12-2007 14:56
#1
Quite small (2-3mm) flying in swarms. I have no idea of the taxa of this tiny insect. When winter approaches and most flies disappear we start to pay attention to the little creatures...
Joaquim Gaspar
Lisboa
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-12-2007 15:03
#2
Easy:
Order > Hemiptera
Suborder > Auchenorrhyncha
Superfamily > Membracoidea
Family > Cicadellidae
Subfamily > Cicadellinae (?)
it seems to be a nymph...
Posted by Isidro on 06-12-2007 17:35
#3
a nyyyyyyymph?????????????????? :o:o:o:o:o
this (very very very clearly adult!) insect can belong to so many genus very similar... Empoasca, etc... many tines, genitalia is required to the determination.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-12-2007 17:37
#4
read: "seems" :P
Posted by Alvesgaspar on 06-12-2007 18:31
#5
Thank you, Jorge and Isidro. So, it is an adult leafhopper. Why isn't it jumping as supposed? ;)
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-12-2007 18:56
#6
because it was very scared when it saw the photographer. :P
they rest too... they don't jump all the time! And this "seems" ( I must put this so isidro cannot confuse :P lol) to clean itself. ::) see the middle legs. ;)
Posted by Isidro on 07-12-2007 00:58
#7
hehehe :p well, in any case, it's not cleaning itself, and this is the normal position of the
third pair of legs ;)
Posted by Juergen Peters on 07-12-2007 02:08
#8
Hello!
jorgemotalmeida wrote:
Subfamily > Cicadellinae (?)
Subfamily Typhlocybinae, could be
Ribautiana tenerrima. Very numerous here (together with sister species
R. debilis) at blackberry hedges, especially in autumn-spring. But Germany is not Portugal..., may be a different species. Overwinters adult (this one has wings, so it is no nymph).