LEAFHOPPER

LEAFHOPPER

Jikradia olitoria
LEAFHOPPER FAMILY (Cicadellidae)

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This hopper, colored brown and gray above in its adult form, usually is postured as shown in images “A” and “B”, perhaps in a position ready to hop away. Note the fishbone-like spines on its legs, a feature shared by many of the leafhoppers. Little information is currently available on these particular hopper species. But they all feed on the juices of plants.

 

This hopper is fairly common in Fontenelle Forest, seen at eye level and below on leaves and stalks of all types of vegetation.

 

This leafhopper was previously known as Coelidia olitoria.

 

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