Treehopper (Portuguese Helmet)

These are so beautiful!

Wow, what a strange animal!

Congratulations....Nice spotting!

Great spotting Pieter.. and congrats...

Great SOTD Pieter .. congratulations!

Congrats

Cute!

Truly amazing. Thanks for sharing these beauties with us Pieter and Congratulations on the SOTD !! .

Congrats Pieter on this SOTD!

Very nice, congratulations.

Beautiful spotting.....

beautiful! congrats on the SOTD!

Congratulations and thanks for sharing this unique hopper!

Congrats Pieter!!

Fantastic! Great job! Love insects and especially this one.

Great capture Peter,amazing shape and collour,congrats on the well deserved SOTD and thanks for sharing

If Dehli is like Chennai (my second home) cars get rear-ended regularly without any locusts :-)

Mark, I donot think I have ever seen such a hopper before (apart from grasshoppers I have seen few ; ) but I have seen a locus plague in Delhi...in the 1990s...car windshields got smeared and then cars got rear-ended . They ate all my plants in the balcony. My apartment for a few days was very crowded with pots indeed.........your comments just trigerred a memory. I saved one locust in formalin and gave it to the small museum we had in our Delhi office. But yes, even well-adjusted parasites do not kill their hosts so I suppose the right host will not be damaged to any great extent...Thanks. Sukanya

I've never heard of a 'right' hopper species damaging it's 'right' host plant to any serious extent.. just doesn't make sense evolutionarily.. have you seen such a thing ? I suppose there are the occasional locust plagues.. but even then I think they occur after unusual rains and excessive green growth and might make sense in the bigger picture. Always willing to learn though. :)

Mark Ridgway...very right. I totally subscribe. Let me re-phrase...do hoppers damage plants? :)

Congrats Pieter. Fabulous tree hopper! ... SukanyaDatta !!? you know every creature has it's place and it's only humans that turn them into pests.

Congratulations!!! Very interesting.

Congratulations, Pieter!

Congratulations!

Congratulations Pieter on your SOTD

Congratulations Pieter!!!

Pieter, I think you can take Membracis foliata as scientific ID. Congrats!

Congratulations Pieter! for the SOTD..

Love these! Congratulations Pieter for your SOTD!

The common name of this hopper is "portuguese helmet". Congratulations for the beautiful series and the SOTD.

Congratulations Pieter, your amazing treehopper is our spotting of the day! There are around 3,200 know species of treehoppers, a group of insects closely related to the cicadas. Facebook: https://upload.facebook.com/projectnoah/photos/a.10150595289465603.674700.10150120463815603/10154301409585603/?type=1 Twitter: https://twitter.com/projectnoah/status/482354338367406080

Pieter this is great! Please consider adding to the global mission, The Hoppers: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8096480

Good job, Sigg! I think you are right with Membracis foliate, however, I only found 1 single trustable ID for it from Stuart McKamey: http://robertoelman-shop.com/collections/single-insects/products/membracis-foliata And I found many untrustable and probably wrong ones. So I am more confused than really "enlightened"...

Woah that's so cool! I've never seen a tree hopper like this, I didn't know they could be this shape or colour. What a fab spotting!

This is beautiful Pieter!

Most amazing! thank you for sharing Pieter

Wow! Beautiful insect! Great pictures!

So pretty, pretty, pretty...aren't hoppers sap-sucking pests?