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Variegated Spittlebug
Carystoterpa fingens
Carystoterpa fingens, commonly known as the variegated spittlebug, is a spittlebug of the family Aphrophoridae. It is endemic to New Zealand. It was first described by Francis Walker in 1851.
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Description
Walker originally described this species as follows:
Yellow, shining: head and chest flat: head concave along the hind border, more convex in front where it has a slight notch on each side; its length less than half its breadth; face convex, almost oval, with a punctured middle stripe, on each side of which are nine shallow oblique cross ridges; epistoma slightly keeled : mouth tawny, reaching to the middle hips; maxillae ferruginous; chest punctured, slightly impressed across in front, with a pitchy stripe extending on each side from the eye to the base of the forewing; abdomen tawny; tips of the feet pitchy : fore-wings whitish, pale tawny towards the hind border, with an undulating ferruginous stripe, which extends through the disk from the base to the tip; hind-wings colourless; veins pale yellow. Length of the body 2 lines; of the wings 6 lines.C. fingens is very variable in appearance.
Range & habitat
C. fingens is endemic to New Zealand. The species has been observed in the North, South and Stewart Islands as well as many of the off shore islands of New Zealand.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
What it does
C. fingens is regarded by New Zealand's Ministry of Primary Industries as a likely vector of Xylella, a serious bacterial disease that is fatal to grape vines.
Wikipedia: “Human interactions”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 387185.