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Cercopoidea >>hemiptera >> Leptataspis fulviceps - Dallas 1850



Leptataspis fulviceps - Dallas 1850


Photos taken at Khao Ramrome, Nakhon Si Thammarat Prov., Thailand on 5 April 2015.



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This does not appear to be a common species in Thailand, I have come across it only once to my knowledge.

There are a lot of misidentifications on the internet. This is primarily because of its very close appearance to L. fuscipennis. There three main ways to seperate the two in photos:
a: The colour of the legs are picous in L. fulviceps, but bright yellow in L. fuscipennis
b: L. fulviceps is larger than L. fuscipennis
c: The orange costal band on the tegmina is thinner on L. fulviceps.
In photos, the most obvious one is the colour of the legs. One needs a specimen of the other species to compare with for the other two.

Much confusion has been caused by a second species, L. fruhstorferi, being originally named L. fulviceps, but it was later changed by Schmidt in 1927. That species does not have the costal band.

Flight Period

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Range

Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia (Java), Malaysia (peninsula), Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand.

Recorded distribution in Thailand. Chiang Mai, Saraburi and Nakhon Si Thammarat provinces.