Leafhoppers In A Mount Barker Garden: 3

Psammotettix lividellus aka Grey Leafhopper (?)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Cicadomorpha
Superfamily: Membracoidea
Family: Cicadellidae
Mount Barker – November 27th, 2014 – on garden plants on private property of mixed and native species

This may not be a native species – If the ID needs revision, please let me know

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Leafhoppers In A Mount Barker Garden: 2

Empoasca sp aka Leafhopper
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Superfamily: Membracoidea
Family: Cicadellidae
Subfamily: Typhlocybinae
Mount Barker – November 27th, 2014 – on garden plants on private property of mixed and native species

Leafhoppers In a Mount Barker Garden: 1

Orosius orientalis aka Common Brown Leafhopper
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Superfamily: Membracoidea
Family: Cicadellidae
Subfamily: Deltocephalinae
Mount Barker – November 27th, 2014 – on garden plants on private property of mixed and native species

This species is one of the most widespread and common Leafhoppers in Australia – It spreads many diseases to commercial crops and causes much commercial damage as a result – This specimen was very small, about 2mm long!