Spittlebug, Froghopper at Greenway, ACT
Identification history
| Bathyllus albicinctus | 20 Nov 2016 | KimPullen | ||
| Bathyllus albicinctus | 20 Nov 2016 | KimPullen | ||
| Unidentified | 20 Nov 2016 | michaelb |
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Size - length 4-5mm, on Chrysocephalum apiculatum, on the slopes on the east side of the Murrumbidgee River, north of Pine Island.
3 comments
michaelb
wrote:
20 Nov 2016
Also see:
http://canberranaturemap.org/Community/Sightings/Details/3366148
http://canberranaturemap.org/Community/Sightings/Details/3366148
KimPullen
wrote:
21 Nov 2016
The ones with a banded brown abdomen are nymphs (immatures), which live encased in a froth ('cuckoo spit' or 'frog spit') they produce from the sap they suck; the white-striped one visible in the shadows in one image is the adult, which abandons the froth. The nymphs are known as spittlebugs and the adults as froghoppers.
KimPullen
wrote:
21 Nov 2016
The tiny black insect in the froth in one shot appears to be a trapped fly or wasp.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.057300-35.426303
- Altitude 561.1m
- Maps Pine Island to Point Hut
- Places Greenway, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 17 Nov 2016 06:58 PM Recorded on
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- Less than 5mm Animal size
Species information
- Bathyllus albicinctus Scientific name
- Spittlebug, Froghopper Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 1279.3m Recorded at altitude
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