Answer to the Monday Night Mystery

What was that dashing bug in pastel colors? As so many of you picked, it's a palmetto planthopper.

Order: Hemiptera

Family: Flatidae

Genus: Ormenaria

Species: rufifascia

Points are awarded as follows:

James Trager: 8 points

Chris Grinter: 5 points

And, one point each for TGIQ, Pete Yeeles, and Ted MacRae for providing additional information including suborder and species year & author.

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Is this the first Monday Night Mystery that's going to be tallied?

Yes- but only because I didn't straighten out the rules until this week.