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Tiny white insect
Alvesgaspar
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Posted on 06-12-2007 13:56
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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...

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Posted on 06-12-2007 14:03
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Easy:
Order > Hemiptera
Suborder > Auchenorrhyncha
Superfamily > Membracoidea
Family > Cicadellidae
Subfamily > Cicadellinae (?)

it seems to be a nymph...
 
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a nyyyyyyymph?????????????????? ShockShockShockShockShock

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.
 
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read: "seems" Pfft
 
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Posted on 06-12-2007 17:31
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Thank you, Jorge and Isidro. So, it is an adult leafhopper. Why isn't it jumping as supposed? Wink
 
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because it was very scared when it saw the photographer. Pfft


they rest too... they don't jump all the time! And this "seems" ( I must put this so isidro cannot confuse Pfft lol) to clean itself. :Smile see the middle legs. Wink

 
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hehehe Pfft well, in any case, it's not cleaning itself, and this is the normal position of the third pair of legs Wink
 
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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).
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