Notes on Insects of the San Francisco Bay Area

Tarantula Hawk - Pepsis pallidolimbata (Mount Diablo)


California Yellowjacket - Vespula sulphurea (Mount Diablo)


Devastating Grasshopper - Melanoplus devastator (Sunol Regional Wilderness)


Long-horned Beetle - Prionus lecontei (Mines Road)


Mantis


Dark Jerusalem Cricket - Stenopelmatus fuscus (Sunol Regional Wilderness)

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They are in order Hemiptera and super-family Cicadoidea. Some local species based on maps from Biogeography of the Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of North America, North of Mexico by Allen F. Sanborn and Polly K. Phillip, in Diversity, April 2013.

• Platypedia barbata
• Platypedia areolata
• Platypedia minor
• Platypedia falcata
• Platypedia mariposa
• Platypedia similis
• Platypedia tomentosa
• Platypedia vanduzeei
• Platypedia laticapitata
• Platypedia intermedia
• Platypedia usingeri
• Neoplatypedia constricta
• Neoplatypedia ampliata
• Clidophleps distanti
• Okanagana occidentalis
• Okanagana mariposa
• Okanagana tristis
• Okanagana hesperia
• Okanagana vanduzeei
• Okanagana rubrovenosa
• Okanagana pallidula
• Okanagana triangulata
• Okanagana canescens
• Tibicinoides minuta
• Tibicinoides mercedita

They are in the order Phasmatodea. Some local species:

• Timema poppensis
• Timema californicum
• Timema douglasi
• Timema genevieve