Longheaded Hopper: Head

Longheaded Hopper (Thanatodictya cf hebe)

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:

Head

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.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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