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Glassy-winged Sharpshooter

Homalodisca vitripennis

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Field Notes

Description:

Brown and yellow sharpshooter with white blotches on transparent wings. I spotted this sharpshooter a few days later on a nearby bush and there was white liquid on the leaf behind it and it was rubbing the liquid on its wings as seen in the last image and video.

Habitat:

This hopper was on a screen door and Bougainvillea in backyard

Reference Links:

Species Homalodisca vitripennis - Glassy-winged Sharpshooter - BugGuide.Net

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Comments (5)
HemaShah
Thank you, :) So much to learn,so little time.
CindyBinghamKeiser
Great question. I am a big fan of these but I'm not the most knowledgeable. Sharpshooters are a subfamily of Leafhoppers. They're named that after their nasty habit of shooting "water" out of their rear end at you. Treehoppers have a large pronotum which can look like a horn or bump. Planthoppers antennae are attached below the eye on the "cheek".
HemaShah
Cindy any quick ways of differentiating between leaf hopper ,plant hopper and sharp shooters? I know that frog hopper nymphs are spittle bugs Have not seen and adult frog hopper yet.

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PublishedMay 13, 2013

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