Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Other insects, spiders, etc.
 Tiny white insect
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| Alvesgaspar |
Posted on 06-12-2007 13:56
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 Member Location: Lisbon, Portugal Posts: 573 Joined: 24.08.07 |
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 Alvesgaspar attached the following image:  [192.55Kb] |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 06-12-2007 14:03
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Easy: Order > Hemiptera Suborder > Auchenorrhyncha Superfamily > Membracoidea Family > Cicadellidae Subfamily > Cicadellinae (?) it seems to be a nymph... |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 06-12-2007 16:35
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2101 Joined: 26.04.07 |
a nyyyyyyymph??????????????????  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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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 06-12-2007 16:37
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
read: "seems"  |
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| Alvesgaspar |
Posted on 06-12-2007 17:31
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Member Location: Lisbon, Portugal Posts: 573 Joined: 24.08.07 |
Thank you, Jorge and Isidro. So, it is an adult leafhopper. Why isn't it jumping as supposed?  |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 06-12-2007 17:56
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
because it was very scared when it saw the photographer. they rest too... they don't jump all the time! And this "seems" ( I must put this so isidro cannot confuse lol) to clean itself. : see the middle legs. |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 06-12-2007 23:58
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2101 Joined: 26.04.07 |
hehehe well, in any case, it's not cleaning itself, and this is the normal position of the third pair of legs |
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 07-12-2007 01:08
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 Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 14364 Joined: 11.09.04 |
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). Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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