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Fulgora laternaria can reach a length of 85–90 millimetres (3.3–3.5 in), with a wingspan up to 100–150 millimetres (3.9–5.9 in). This insect has a protuberance at its head as long as 10–15 millimetres (0.39–0.59 in), looking like a peanut and showing false eyes to resemble that of a lizard or a serpent.
Spotted lanternfly in New York, where it is an invasive species. Adult L. delicatula measure about 25 millimetres (1 in) long and 12 millimetres (1 ⁄ 2 in) wide. Adult lanternflies have a black head and gray-brown forewings adorned with black spots. [20]
Members of this genus are often referred to colloquially as "lanternfly" or "lantern bug" due to their brightly colored hind wings. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] L. delicatula (often called the spotted lanternfly) has received a number of different colloquial names because it is invasive in South Korea , the United States, and Japan .
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Phrictus quinquepartitus belongs to a group of three species: itself, Phrictus tripartitus and Phrictus buechei.They all have the distinct band at 2/3rds of the tegmen pale yellow or peach, uninterrupted, uniformly thick, undulate, and distinctly bifurcating near the sutral margin.The three species can be differentiated with the following key:
It was believed, mainly on the authority of Maria Sibylla Merian, that this process, the so-called lantern, was luminous at night in the living insect. Carl Linnaeus adopted the statement without question and coined a number of specific names, such as laternaria , phosphorea and candelaria to illustrate the supposed fact, and thus propagated ...
The nymphs are sometimes referred to as lantern-flies because of their large lantern like snout, although this does not emit light. This species occurs in mainland Africa, and also in Madagascar , where it has often been known under the name Zanna madagascariensis (or as a subspecies, Zanna tenebrosa madagascariensis ), [ 1 ] and referred to ...
Pyrops intricatus is a species of lantern bug, an insect in the family Fulgoridae, found in Borneo. [1] It was originally described in 1857 by Francis Walker as Hotinus intricatus . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]