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THE LEAFHOPPERS (HOMOPTERA, AUCHENORRHYNCHA) OF THE FAROE ISLANDS
Fig. 9: Anoscopus albifrons (L.) male
Streymoy, Kaldbak - 23 August 1992
Fig. 10: Anoscopus albifrons (L.) female
Sandoy, Sandur - 29 August 1992
mentions this species in his remarks to A.
flavostriatus, when he writes:”..those taken
in the latest years (on Strømø) are some-
what varying, and do perhaps represent a
new species.”
Like all Anoscopus species it stays very
close to the ground,which makes it difficult
to find. It prefers rather dry places, and it
possibly feeds on grasses, but little is
known of its host-plants. At Kaldbak we
found several specimens on heather on a
vertical rock-face, and at Hoydalar and at
Trongisvágur on Suðuroy we found some
very small Anoscopus larvae on heather,
which could well be A. albifrons, however,
Anoscopus larvae cannot be identified at
the present time.
A. albifrons is widespread in Europe, it is
found in Scotland, is rare in Norway and is
not known from Iceland.
Streymoy: Argir, 4 July 1926 (J.P.Kryger)
Argir, 21 August 1926 (J.P.Kryger)
Tórshavn, Hoydalar, 16 July 1926 (J.P.Kryger)
Tórshavn, 6 July 1989 (P.Ketil)
Tórshavn, 31 August 1992 (P.Ketil/L.Trolle)
Kaldbaksfjørður, 23 August 1992
(P.Ketil/L.Trolle)
Norðradalur, 8 July 1989 (P.Ketil)
Sandoy: Sandur, 29 August 1992 (P.Ketil/L.Trolle)
Søltuvík, 29 August 1992 (P.Ketil/L.Trolle)
5. Anoscopus flavostriatus (Don.), Figs. 11
and 12. Distribution map, Fig. 46.
(Arocephalus flavostrigatus Don.).
The male with characteristic markings on
the head and the wings, also the aedeagus is
distinct (Fig. 29); the female is brownish
with two yellowish white spots at the apex
of the head.
Anoscopus flavostriatus prefers damper
conditions than A. albifrons, but sometimes
the two species are found together, as we