Mallee Lacehopper Ventral | Longheaded Hopper Profile | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | True Bugs (Hemiptera) | ||||
Family: | Dictyopharid Planthopper (Hopper: Fulgoroidea, Dictyopharidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Longheaded Hopper (Thanatodictya cf hebe) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Dorsal🔎 | ||||
Thank you Won-Gun Kim for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere This is the more usual type seen, with the straight snout. WonGun said "According to Kirby (1906), Thanatodictya hebe has 2 cells in the stigma." Later he said "Among the 5 Australian species of the genus Thanatodictya, T. praeferrata and T. bifasciata have distinct features, and so they are easily separable. But the difference between the remaining 3 species is somewhat unclear and their separation based on the key is not easy." These 3 other known species are T. hebe, T. insignis & T. psyche. | |||||
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