Clastoptera testacea

At a 365 + 395nm UV light setup at a mixed forest edge.

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Pudding4brains

Lion

Hi Lisa, this one has me puzzled!
The shape is so uncannily like our European Penthimia that I would certainly suspect a close relation, but BG doesn't even list anything for subfamily Penthimiinae ... :-/
6Penthimiinae
Anyway, I can't really make your suggestion of Cyrtolobus (Membracidae) work for me either (that said, of course I know nothing about Nearctic hoppers, so I may well be wrong!).
Penthimiinae would be in the family Cicadellidae, so maybe that's worth another look?

P.S. Ahw, duh - BG has Penthimia in the Deltocephalinae. That may well be the most recent insight (I don't do Hoppers much).
Anyhoo - Two species of which one seems to be quite rare:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/15883/bgpage
Somehow I would not be too surprised if yours turned out to be the rarer P. floridana, but we would certainly need to find some info on diagnostic characters ...
P.a. http://dmitriev.speciesfile.org/taxahelp.asp?hc=33497&key=Erythroneura&lng=En
P.f. http://dmitriev.speciesfile.org/taxahelp.asp?hc=33512&key=Erythroneura&lng=En

P.P.S. Here is some info from NC:
P.a. https://auth1.dpr.ncparks.gov/bugs/view_1.php?id=16279
P.f. https://auth1.dpr.ncparks.gov/bugs/view_1.php?id=16280

not much to go by for ID really, but anywayz...

Posted 4 years ago, modified 4 years ago
1. Flown Kimmerling
  
  Lion
  
  Thank you!!! I will post it over at BG and look into it a bit further once I get home (headed out to a doctor appointment this morning)! :) Posted 4 years ago
2. Flown Kimmerling
  
  Lion
  
  Just IDed as Clastoptera testacea by the hopper experts here:
  https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/86188281
  
  A morph I had not yet seen! Posted 4 years ago, modified 4 years ago
3. Flown Kimmerling
  
  Lion
  
  The typical morph:
  
  Posted 4 years ago