Hello CCS colleagues,

I hope you are all well. God has kept me well and healthy by his grace.
I am here today to enter the Eco Lens Map competition as I always do.
I am here today to show you a photograph of a Centrotus cornutus insect.

Habitat

These thorn-hoppers live in woodland, coastal forests, hedgerows and moderately moist or dry areas.

Description

When female hoppers are slightly larger. The main colour of the robust body is dark-brown. The large protruding eyes are round and reddish-brown to red. The pronotum is hairy, arched, and is drawn back into a long, wave-shaped extension above the wings, with two sharp, ear-shaped lateral protrusions (hence the Latin name cornutus, meaning "horned"). The legs are very short. The forewings are pale brown and transparent, with clear brown veins.
The peculiar horn-like extension of the pronotum aids in visual camouflage. In fact, when this insect rests on a branch with its legs pulled back, it looks like part of the branch itself.

Biology

They can be seen from early May to early August. Both males and females produce vibration signals during courtship, and they are able to jump as Orthoptera. After mating in late June and early July, the females lay several eggs on the stems of herbaceous plants, on which the larvae hatch and feed. This "treehopper" is polyphagous, feeding on plant sap, which it takes in with its specially designed, piercing mouthparts. The larvae live mainly on Cirsium, Carduus and Urtica species, while the adults prefer Populus, Quercus and Rubus species. In the larval stage they overwinter in litter and have a two-year life cycle.

I found this insect on my vegetable garden. I found this insect about two years ago in a neighbor's garden. But it flew away before my camera could focus on it. At that time, I was very upset, but when I was able to capture it in my camera net at my own house, I felt very happy. But I faced a problem in photographing it. It was hiding from me in the opposite direction from which I was photographing it. Nevertheless, it took me quite a while to get many good photographs of it. Another problem was that these insects were harmful to my vegetable garden, but I could not kill them myself, so I just pushed them away with a little push on the branch.

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Scientific classification of Centrotus cornutus

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