saltamontes

saltamontes

An insect of the order Homoptera, family Delphacidae, which feeds by sucking sap from leaf veins along the lower portion of the rice plant; usually more stout and slow-moving than leafhoppers. Planthoppers have a mobile spur called a "calcar" at the tip of the tibia of the hind leg.

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