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DICTYOPHARIDAE: HORNED HOPPERS
Greenish or brownish planthoppers with obvious horned heads that makes them unmistakeable, the unusual shape combined with the cryptic colouration enabling them to imitate thorns or broken branches on the plants on which they live. These distinctive planthoppers often exhibit brood guarding behaviour. They lack transverse veins in the anal area of the wing and have a ring of spines on the end of the second tarsal segment of the hind legs. Over 100 species occur in the Neotropics.
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FIGURE 1 - Unidentified sp, Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith December 2009).
FIGURE 2 - Unidentified sp, Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith March 2010).
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