{"id":1002508,"date":"2009-08-14T08:30:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1002508"},"modified":"2009-08-14T08:38:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T13:38:15","slug":"taiwanese-leafhopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/nature\/bugs\/2009\/08\/14\/taiwanese-leafhopper\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese Leafhopper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Sophonia\u00c2\u00a0orientalis.jpg\" alt=\"4mm yellow leafhopper with false eyespots\" title=\"Sophonia\u00c2\u00a0orientalis\" width=\"489\" height=\"655\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1002509\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Sophonia orientalis<\/i><br \/>\nIrvine, 2009-07-16<\/p>\n<p>This introduced species from Taiwan shows up on my balcony occasionally. It&#8217;s a little less than half a centimeter long. The spots on its hindquarters are fake eyes. In the field at night they really do look like eyes, and consequently the bug appears to walk backwards.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/62276\">BugGuide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioone.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1603\/0013-8746(2007)100%5B19:BATOLS%5D2.0.CO%3B2\">Bionomics and Taxonomy of Leafhopper Sophonia orientalis (Homoptera: Cicadellidae), a Pacific Pest Species in the Macaronesian Archipelagos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophonia orientalis Irvine, 2009-07-16 This introduced species from Taiwan shows up on my balcony occasionally. It&#8217;s a little less than half a centimeter long. The spots on its hindquarters are fake eyes. In the field at night they really do look like eyes, and consequently the bug appears to walk backwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[145,144],"class_list":["post-1002508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs","tag-insects","tag-leafhoppers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002514,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002508\/revisions\/1002514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}