Vertical Wing Achilid Hopper: S5, ventral

Vertical Wing Achilid Hopper (Tropiphlepsia badia)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

Family:

Achilid Planthopper (Hopper: Fulgoroidea, Achilidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Vertical Wing Achilid Hopper (Tropiphlepsia badia)

This Photo:

S5, ventral

Thank you Won-Gun Kim, Mark Ridgeway & Nick Lambert for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Of those we've measured, they range from ~3mm to ~4mm. That's quite a size variation. We're not sure if this is due to gender, normal variation, or actually different species that look the same.

This species is

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

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