Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Mysterious Brazilian leafhopper (?)

Posted by blowave on 08-01-2011 00:32
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I'm hitting a brick wall with these, but I have found some more interesting information!

First, look at the head figures in particular number 9 on the link, but the link only works if you click on the google image search. It's the second from the left on the top row, with drawings of heads. There is a key there and the head shape suggests Cixiidae, but looking at the key above those with wings without tubercules on the wing veins are in the family Kinnaridae. I can't find any pics of that family though!

This google image link is not working, try to copy and past it or search for the words "palm cixiid brasil"

http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=Palm cixiid brasil&wrapid=tlif12944164836931&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1414&bih=751

There's some descriptions of different families on the following link, by clicking on the family you can view more pics on a pdf for each family..

http://ag.udel.ed...hacid.html

The next pdf is a gem, with keys as well as species found in Brazil.

http://www.tede.u...mpleto.pdf

By searching some names I have found an list of Fulgoromorpha in Brazil giving destribution maps as well as host plants.

http://flow.snv.j...&id=11

A search for some of the species may bring up more sites, and who knows, eventually we might find this particular one! They are poorly recorded in Brazil though.