Manual of vegetable-garden insects . Fiu. 53. — Lufit nymphalstage of the wingedviviparous female beanaphis (enlarged). The Garden Flea-Hopper Haliicus citri Ashmead This small black plant-bug resembles the cucumber flea-beetle in size, form and in its habit of jumping when female is dimorphic. In one form the wings are fullydevel()])ed and in the other they are short and lack the mem-branous portion at the end. The long-winged form (Fig. 54)is ^ij inch in length, black in color, with the thorax and wingscovered with small tufts of yellowish scale-like hairs; the tipof the cuneus
Manual of vegetable-garden insects . Fiu. 53. — Lufit nymphalstage of the wingedviviparous female beanaphis (enlarged). The Garden Flea-Hopper Haliicus citri Ashmead This small black plant-bug resembles the cucumber flea-beetle in size, form and in its habit of jumping when female is dimorphic. In one form the wings are fullydevel()])ed and in the other they are short and lack the mem-branous portion at the end. The long-winged form (Fig. 54)is ^ij inch in length, black in color, with the thorax and wingscovered with small tufts of yellowish scale-like hairs; the tipof the cuneus has a white spot. The legs and antennae are 78 MANUAL OF VEGETABLE-GARDEN INSECTS. Fig. 54. — The Rarden flea-hopper,long-winged female (X 16). pale, marked with black. The short-winged form (Fig. 55) issomewhat smaller and more ovate in outline. The front wings lack the membranous part,do not extend to the tip ofthe abdomen and are roundedbehind, thus resembling thewing-covers of a beetle. Themale (Fig. 56) is similar tothe long-winged female but ismuch narrower. The garden flea-hopper isgenerally distributed through-out the eastern United Statesand Canada, and westward toKansas and Utah. It feedson a great variety of plantsincluding bean, pea, potato,tomato, eggplant, pepper, beet, cabbage, pumpkin, cucumber,squash, celery, lettuce, sweet potato, corn, clover, alfalfa,sweet clover and cowpea. Amongits wild food plants may be mentionedbeggarweed, ragweed, pigweed, plan-tain, smartweed, thistle, mares tail,burdock, wild lettuce, vervain, stick-tight, self-heal, mallow, aster, oxalisand convolvulus. The garden flea-hopper has also been recorded as apest of chrysant
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