Hoppers of North Carolina

Hoppers of North Carolina:
Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, Treehoppers, and Planthoppers

Family (Alpha):

CICADELLIDAE Members:	NC Records
Cantura albonotata - No Common Name

Taxonomy

Family: CICADELLIDAE	Subfamily: Deltocephalinae	Tribe: Scaphoideini
Taxonomic Author: (Van Duzee, 1909)

Identification

Online Photographs: BugGuide, GBIF iNaturalist
Description: A fulvous brown species with a characteristic and distinctive spot pattern across the wings. The vertex is moderately long with a pointed apex, almost triangular in shape; in females, the vertex more obtuse whereas in males it is subacute. The vertex, anterior margin of the pronotum, scutellum and venter are a little lighter than the wings. There is a symmetrical step-shaped mark across the middle of the vertex, though this might be obscure in some individuals; the lines of the vertex margin are often not continuous nor parallel. The median brown line transversing the vertex though is thin but distinct. The anterior margin of the vertex has a fuscous line that is usually broken into four spots, and the frons is fulvous brown. There are some darker markings along the anterior margin of the pronotum, including a blackish dot behind each eye. The basal angles of the scutellum are obscurely fulvous. The elytral nervures are fuscous, with one to three whitish spots in each wing cell, typically outlined in brown. Along the commissure, there are three pairs of whitish claval spots; these 6 spots are distinctive to this species. The outer claval cell has a long blackish streak that is intercepted by the posterior of the white commissural spots; there is a white spot at the other end of this streak too. The claval nervures strongly approach one another and are sometimes connected, with the outer one connected to the claval suture by a transverse veinlet. The female pregenital sternite is short and triangular, with the posterior margin oblique and truncated, nearly rectilinear on either side; it is not regularly rounded at the other angles. The male subgenital plates are long and bluntly triangular, lined with stout marginal bristles. Adults are around 5.0 to 5.5 mm long. (Van Duzee 1909, Beamer 1937) For additional images of a specimen, see: BG.

Distribution in North Carolina

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Distribution: Southeastern United States, from Florida to Virginia. Described from Florida (Van Duzee 1909) and previously known to occur in Georgia and Virginia (Beamer 1937); the records below from 2020 represent the first from North Carolina.

Abundance: Recorded from two counties in the Coastal Plain, from the coast and sandhills; likely more abundant in the Coastal Plain.

Seasonal Occurrence

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Habitats and Life History

Habitats: Has been found in pine savannas.

Plant Associates:

Behavior:

Comment: NOTE: This species morphologically resembles some Osbornellus species (particularly O. clarus and O. consors) more so than Cantura jucunda and could be mistaken for a member of that genus. The spot and vertex pattern though is characteristic of this species and will help separate it from any Osbornellus.

Status: Native

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Species Photo Gallery for Cantura albonotata No Common Name
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	Photo by: Bo Sullivan Carteret Co. Comment: male; pine savanna	Photo by: Bo Sullivan Carteret Co. Comment: male; pine savanna
	Photo by: Bo Sullivan Carteret Co. Comment: male; pine savanna	Photo by: Bo Sullivan Carteret Co. Comment: male; pine savanna
	Photo by: Bo Sullivan Carteret Co. Comment: male; pine savanna	Photo by: Bo Sullivan Carteret Co. Comment: male; pine savanna
	Photo by: Bo Sullivan Carteret Co. Comment: male, 5.0 mm; pine savanna	Photo by: Bo Sullivan Carteret Co. Comment: male, 5.0 mm; pine savanna
	Photo by: Bo Sullivan Carteret Co. Comment: male, 5.0 mm; pine savanna	Photo by: Bo Sullivan Carteret Co. Comment: male, 5.0 mm; pine savanna

Cantura albonotata - No Common Name

Species Photo Gallery for Cantura albonotata No Common Name