Curious About Clastoptera?
Clastopterid Spittlebugs are notoriously difficult to identify externally. I have made a preliminary visual guide to the Clastoptera species of the United States and Canada, based on authoritatively identified specimens.
https://bugguide.net/node/view/5243
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Nice work! Thanks for your efforts on this.
Great work. Great help. Thank you.
I appreciate the feedback, thank you!
I should examine C. obtusa s.l. with more attention next time I see it .
@vcharny I should note—as currently defined C. obtusa is the only member of that complex in the east, the rest are western @vcharny
there are subspecies of C. obtusa in the east which need to be better looked at, Doering (1928) did not review the terminalia of the subspecies and they may need to be synonymized. C. obtusa tristis lacks the white bands on the wings, C. obtusa borealis has the white bands on the wing very distinct, and C. obtusa obtusa has the white bands "much less distinct, barely discernible."
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