#Flatidae hashtag - Bluesky

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Inhabits the United States. Body pale green; head dusky brownish before; eyes red: antennae and stemmata yellowish-white; seta black: thorax and scutel glabrous, with a broad, lateral, dark reddish-brown vitta: hemelytra vertical, much dilated, pale greenish-yellow, paler towards the costal margin, inner margin dark reddish-brown: wings white: pectus and caudal segment whitish: feet, anterior pairs brownish: venter pale green. Length three-tenths of an inch. Found near Engineer Cantonment on the Missouri river; it also occurs in Pennsylvania; it is rather smaller than F. relict, Fabr. and the hemelytra are more dilated. F. sigmata. Black; wings white, with a black stigma and transverse spot at base. Inhabits Missouri. Body black: vertex triangular, distinguished by an elevated edge, and an abbreviated, carinate line: thorax acutely emarginate behind, and with an elevated edge and dorsal carina, carina abbreviated before, a squamula covering the origin of the hemelytra: scutel tricarinate, intermediate carina abbreviated behind: hemelytra white, a common black band near the base, becoming brown towards the suture, a black stigma which is margined before with white: nervures with white and blackish alternate dots, the latter setigerous: tibiae pale brownish.

F. bivittata. Greenish-yellow; a lateral reddish-brown line confluent on the hemelytra; hemelytra vertical.

A crisp macro photo of a bright green planthopper with veined, leaf-like wings and a sharply contrasting reddish-brown top edge. Its eyes are red and its body rests on a velvety-textured leaf. The background is an even, dark green blur.

Descriptions of new Hemipterous Insects collected in the Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, performed by order of Mr. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under command of Major Long. By Thomas Say. Read June 1, 1824.

This Acanalonia bivittata was first described by Thomas Say in 1824 during the Long Expedition. Fun to think backyard bugs were once discoveries of the American frontier. Original description attached from Engineer Cantonment on the Missouri.
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