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Field Notes

Description:

Small brown and white mottled insect (leaf hopper?) that looks like a little patch of lichen peeling off a tree. It's body angles up when standing.

Notes:

Apparently likes to chill on lunch boxes.
Could be Glassy-winged Sharpshooter

Species ID Suggestions

Glassy-winged Sharpshooter

Homalodisca vitripennis

Reference Link
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Comments (1)
bayucca
Definitely a sharpshooter/leafhopper, Cicadellidae, Cicadellinae. Looks close to this one, but I am not 100% sure about the range of this one and the correct ID. Take it as a hint! http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/10274847

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Mission
WILD Cities: Urban Biodiversity
Photographed
PublishedApril 17, 2012

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