Derbid planthopper

Otiocerus francilloni is a small derbid planthopper. It occurs in the United States east of the Great Plains and in southern Ontario Canada. Like all planthoppers in the genus Otiocerus, it is relatively scarce compared to other planthoppers.

Adults feed on the foliage of trees and tall shrubs. Little else is known of their life history.

Adults are relatively large for derbid planthoppers. The body length is 5⁄16″ (7.5 mm). The body is whitish to pale yellow, not reddish.

The head strongly projects forward, resembling a snout or beak when viewed from the side. It is thin when viewed from above. It is mostly pale with cloudy dark markings. The top of the head (vertex) is flat. The junction where it meets the front of the head (frons) is distinctly obtusely angled, not rounded. There are two compound eyes and no simple eyes (ocelli). The antennae are blackish but the basal appendage at the base of each antenna is white.

The forewings (hemelytra) are pale and long. They are narrow at the base, becoming much wider toward the tip, giving them a moth-like appearance. Dark spots are scattered over the entire surface, including at the base. Some of the spots are grouped with dark dots to form an indistinct, broken, oblique, band. There are also three blackish spots on the rear margin.

On the abdomen, there is a dark spot on each side of all abdominal segments.

Body length: 5⁄16″ (7.5 mm)

Foliage of trees and tall shrubs