Acacia horned treehopper at Brindabella, NSW
Identification history
| Sextius virescens | 22 Apr 2021 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Sextius virescens | 21 Apr 2021 | BIrdsinCanberra |
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I noticed a slow moving green triangle travelling up a stem, with black ants scurrying over the bug. The tree hopper in the first three photos continued moving up the stem past the new shoot, all the time with ants moving over it. There was also a second one on the same stem but above the new shoot. It decided to turn around and park head first into where the shoot was growing.
2 comments
KimPullen
wrote:
22 Apr 2021
I think the plant may be something other than Eucalyptus. Sextius is known from Acacia and some other leguminous shrubs.
BIrdsinCanberra
wrote:
22 Apr 2021
Hi Kim, You could be right about the plant, I am terrible with my plant identification. Cheers
Location information
- Coordinates 148.803570-35.363357
- Altitude 1291.2m
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Brindabella, NSW
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 28 Mar 2021 08:46 AM Recorded on
- BIrdsinCanberra Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Leafhoppers & planthoppers (Hemiptera, several families) BIrdsinCanberra Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Eucalyptus sapling Associated plant
- ants Associated Insect
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Sextius virescens Scientific name
- Acacia horned treehopper Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1291.2m Recorded at altitude
- 210 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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