Wattle Hopper
Rear Leg 1
Wattle Hopper
Ventral
| Wattle Hopper Rear Leg 1 | | Wattle Hopper Ventral | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | True Bugs (Hemiptera) | ||||
| Family: | Planthopper (Hopper: Fulgoroidea, Eurybrachidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Wattle Hopper (Dardus sp) | ||||
| This Photo: | Rear Leg 2 | ||||
EXTRA - Photo Specific Information: The reason for 2 such similar photo's is to highlight the differences noticed with a slightly different angle / twist. Here you can see the extra spines not visible in the previous photo. With these small inverts where the leg spines can be diagnostic it is too easy to miss important detail. General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere A little hopper ~4-5mm long. You'll notice our specimen has lost one of it's middle feet. With very dark specimens like these we bump up brightness to highlight details, making the background unrealistically bright. It can be considered a camera artifact and highlights the need to be careful when considering colours in photo's. | |||||
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