froghopper or spittlebug (nymph)
The froghoppers, or the superfamily Cercopoidea, are a group of hemipteran insects in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha. Adults are capable of jumping many times their height and length, giving the group their common name, but they are best known for their plant-sucking nymphs which encase themselves in foam in springtime.
"Philaenus spumarius", the meadow froghopper or meadow spittlebug, is a species of insect belonging to the spittlebug family Aphrophoridae. In Italy and America, it is economically important as one of the vectors of Pierce's Disease.
Similar species: True Bugs
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Uploaded Sep 8, 2019. Captured May 17, 2012 15:44 in Unnamed Road, 91000 Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia.
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This looks to be a spittlebug. Spittlebugs are the nymph stage of some froghoppers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froghopper Posted 5 years ago