Brown Horned Treehopper - Pogonella minutus

Family Membracidae

This page contains pictures and information about Brown Horned Treehoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Body length 5mm

 

The Brown Horned Treehoppers are dark brown to black in colours. They have the pronotum extended and look like having two horns. 

 

 

From reference information this is the female. Male has the smaller horns and smaller body size.. 

 

 

We found this Treehopper in Anstead Forest once on Nov 2011. It was resting on a weed plant. We looked around and did not find any other one.  

 

This Brown Horned Treehoppers is the smallest species in family Membracidae.   

 

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Reference and link:

1. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Cicadelloidea and Cercopoidea) - J W Evans, Australian Museum, 1966, p285, Fig.43J.

2. Genus Pogonella Evans - Australian Membracidae, by By Murray J. Fletcher and Max F. Day, 2005.  

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