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Description
BL ♂♀: 7.9-10.2 mm. Living specimens bright green, dead specimens straw yellow. Tips of the appendages of the (notable high) pronotum are dark or black. Margins of pronotum yellowish or brown. Pronotum with light, whitish, spots. Head with two red ocelli between the compound eyes.
Ecology
Found in mostly dry and warm sites on woody and herbaceous plants. Adults can be found between July and November.
Distribution
This American species can now be found in most of Europe, except the north.
References
- Holzinger, W.E., I. Kammerlander & H. Nickel 2003. The Auchenorrhyncha of Central Europe, Fulgoromorpha, Cicadomorpha excl. Cicadellidae. Brill Publishers, Leiden: 673 pp.
- Jach, M. & H. Hoch 2013. Fauna Europaea: Cicadomorpha, Cicadomorpha, Membracidae. Fauna Europaea version 2.6.2. Available on: www.faunaeur.org.
- Kopp, D.D. & T.R. Yonke 1977. Taxonomic status of the buffalo treehopper and the name Ceresa bubalus. Annals of the entomological Society of America 70(6): 901-905. (Description)
- Tishechkin, D. Y. 2022. New and interesting records of Auchenorrhyncha (Homoptera) in European Russia. Russian Entomological Journal 31(3): 234-248.
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♂ Imago
♂ Imago
♂ Imago
Imago
Imago
Nymph
Nymph