#derbidae

[apsciencebylyn]

Q: Why are Bugs so silly?

A: Because they don't have a serious bone in their body

*loud booing, groaning*

Anyway here's Apache degeeri, a silly derbid planthopper

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Occasional Day

LOOK AT THIS ADORABLE PEANUTTY NUGGET!!!

(Derbid planthopper, maybe genus Otiocerus)

[lazchance]

hello my dears... stoic creature thing with large paddle wings

its a funny looking guy. some kind of planthopper with its wings spread out majestically. pretty sure its from the genus Zoraida

the iridescence in its wings can be seen more clearly from this perspective hopefully. it had these shiny translucent wings. very stoic guy

you can see it just kinda standing there. in his zone. flourishing. #MyThis

[crevicedwelling]

these delicate nocturnal flyers from Costa Rica aren’t moths, but derbid planthoppers, relatives of lanternflies and flatids. derbids are often quite oddly shaped for hemipterans; these three (all in the subtribe Derbini) have strikingly broad, flat wings always held open and coated in a waxy powder.

their wispy texture and glowing halo when illumated by a flashlight gave them an ethereally angelic appearance as they fluttered through the nighttime rainforest.

regrettably this is a much understudied group and I couldn’t find a good source for identification for any of them.

[onenicebugperday]

Red and white debid planthopper, Saccharodite coccinea, Derbidae

Found throughout South and Southeast Asia

Photo 1 by simbason, 2 by tausher, 3 (mating) by cosmophasis, and 4-5 by ylsu

[ichneumoniid]

One of my friends said this guy looks like a shrimp and now I can’t unsee it

(Apache degeeri, 7/31/2024)

[bugkeeping]

Apache degeeri 

[395nm]

Saved this one from bathtub drowning. My phone suggests Otiocerus wolfii. I’ve never seen this genus before. Its camo was almost too good—when I saw it in the bathwater, I thought it was a piece of string. But it had bilateral symmetry, so I decided to fish it out just in case. Be free, little bug!