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Willow Spittlebug

Aphrophora salicina

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) benoit_segerer, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.

United States	2,380
Alaska	2,373
Germany	65
Russia	62
Hungary	47
Austria	46
Netherlands	44
France	31
Pest	26
Steiermark	23

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Insects · Insecta
Order	True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and allies · Hemiptera
Family	True Spittlebugs · Aphrophoridae
Genus	Aphrophora

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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Practise Willow Spittlebug with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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