Woodlands Historic Park Bugs

Green Leaf-hopper (Tribe Empoascini) at Woodlands Historic Park
Leaf-hopper on Kangaroo Apple, mid December. About 6mm long.

The only plant species in the park on which this hopper has been found is Kangaroo Apple, which is in the Solanum family. Unfortunately it does not seem to feed on the weeds Black Nightshade or Apple of Sodom, even though they are in the same family.

This is another one of those "hopper" species which I have never seen hop - instead both adults and nymphs run sideways to the other side of the leaf if threatened.

Classification

from Australian Faunal Directory

Order Hemiptera - bugs, hoppers and scale insects
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha - Cicadas, Hoppers, and Spittlebugs
Super-family Membracoidea - Leaf-hoppers and Tree-hoppers, 860 species in Australia
Family Cicadellidae - Leafhoppers and Gumtree hoppers, 784 named species in Australia
Subfamily Typhlocybinae - Micro Leaf-hoppers, 61 species in Australia
Tribe Empoascini - Micro Leaf-hoppers, 15 species in Australia
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