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HOMOPTERA: Cicadas, Aphids, Hoppers

COMMON NAME:  Cicada Class: Insecta Order: Heteroptera - Homoptera Family: . Sub-family: . Genus: . Species: . Date: 05/31/2004 Location: Sierra Vista, Cochise Co., AZ
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COMMON NAME:  Cicada Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Cicadidae Sub-family: . Genus: . Species: . Date: 6/9/2003 Location: Sierra Vista, AZ
Comment: Small cicada, male. Makes a soft buzzing noise in grass.

COMMON NAME:  Cicada, male, possibly Cacama valvata Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Cicadidae Sub-family: . Genus: . Species: . Date: 6/3/2003 Location: Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ
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COMMON NAME:  Apache Cicada2 (2" long including wings) Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Cicadidae Sub-family: . Genus: Diceroprocta Species: Diceroprocta apache Date: 7/5/2001 Location: River/La Canada, Tucson, AZ
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COMMON NAME:  Possible baby cicada Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Cicadidae Sub-family: . Genus: . Species: . Date: 4/23/2003 Location: Reid Park Zoo, Tucson, AZ
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COMMON NAME:  Large cicada (T. auletes?), male, has a very loud call! Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Cicadidae Sub-family: . Genus: Tibicen Species: Tibicen cultriformis6 Date: 10/20/2002 Location: Patagonia, Santa Cruz Co., AZ
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COMMON NAME:  Winged aphid on leaf Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Aphididae Sub-family: . Genus: . Species: . Date: 5/11/2002 Location: Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ
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COMMON NAME:  Oleander aphids on milkweed seed pod Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Aphididae Sub-family: . Genus: Aphis Species: Aphis nerii Date: 9/2000 Location: Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ
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COMMON NAME:  A pale-green aphid Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Aphididae Sub-family: . Genus: . Species: . Date: 5/2001 Location: Cardinal/Los Reales, Tucson, AZ
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COMMON NAME:  Dark aphids on dandelion Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Aphididae Sub-family: . Genus: . Species: . Date: 5/2001 Location: Cardinal/Los Reales, Tucson, AZ
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COMMON NAME:  Red aphids on vine leaf Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Aphididae Sub-family: . Genus: . Species: . Date: 9/2000 Location: Reid Park Zoo, Tucson, AZ
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COMMON NAME:  Shell of wasp-parasitized aphid1 Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Aphididae Sub-family: . Genus: . Species: . Date: ?/2000 Location: Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson, AZ
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COMMON NAME:  Mealy Bug- very tiny blue bug on leaf Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Pseudococcidae Sub-family: . Genus: Pseudococcus Species: . Date: 12/2000 Location: Kailua, HI
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COMMON NAME:  Mealy Bug Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Pseudococcidae Sub-family: . Genus: Pseudococcus Species: . Date: 5/2001 Location: Cardinal/Los Reales, Tucson, AZ
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COMMON NAME:  Cottony Cushion Scale bug Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Margarodidae Sub-family: . Genus: Icerya Species: Icerya purchasi Date: 6/2001 Location: Cardinal/Los Reales, Tucson, AZ
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COMMON NAME:  Cottony Cushion Scale bug Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Margarodidae Sub-family: . Genus: Icerya Species: Icerya purchasi Date: 7/2001 Location: Cardinal/Los Reales, Tucson, AZ
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COMMON NAME:  Cottony Cushion Scale bug Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Margarodidae Sub-family: . Genus: Icerya Species: Icerya purchasi Date: 4/16/2002 Location: Cardinal/Los Reales, Tucson, AZ
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COMMON NAME:  Planthopper Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Flatidae Sub-family: . Genus: . Species: . Date: 8/4/2001 Location: Near Greencastle, PA
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COMMON NAME:  Planthopper Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Flatidae Sub-family: . Genus: Poblicia Species: . Date: 10/13/2003 Location: Ramsey Canyon, Hamburg Trail #122, Cochise Co., AZ
Similar to Poblicia fuliginosa [http://bugguide.net/node/view/227184]

COMMON NAME:  Froghopper (spittlebug) Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Cercopidae Sub-family: . Genus: . Species: . Date: 7/5/2003 Location: Sierra Vista, Cochise Co., AZ
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COMMON NAME:  Mealybugs Class: Insecta Order: Heteroptera - Homoptera Family: . Sub-family: . Genus: . Species: . Date: 10/07/2007 Location: Sierra Vista, Cochise Co., AZ
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COMMON NAME:  Whitefly Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Aleyrodidae Sub-family: . Genus: . Species: . Date: 12/25/2002 Location: Kailua, Honolulu Co., HI
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COMMON NAME:  Cochineal Bug, female and immature bugss Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera - Homoptera Family: Dactylopiidae Sub-family: . Genus: Dactylopius Species: . Date: 08/06/2005 Location: Tucson, Pima Co., AZ
Hatchling on left and other larger nymphs are nearby

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