Just in passing, I was looking at some photos of Dictyophara europaea in Americas (map), they look slightly different, with longer wings, more pointy abdomen, etc.
I’m not a specialist, but maybe someone knows more about this genus and local species…
I don’t know these, but with 80+ species in that genus and only 9 species observed on INaturalist. One species with overwhelming majority of observations, a top Identifier with low number of identifications, but most of the Europeon Lanternfly species are RG. This means many many different people have agreed with a handful of observations, rather than one very knowledge person iding them all.
I’m skeptical how correct any of them are. Apparently there are 5 sudgenera, and the one with the European Lanternfly is missing the other species. Like Dictyophara lindbergi.
I see… Insects.
And those Dictyopharidae are a particularly happy family it seems?
That said I would ID all these observations mentioned in my OP as "genus Dictyophara” maybe, but as I said I lack the expertise so this might not be correct either.
Edit: now I see there are also “crypto mushrooms” named DictyophOra more popular among scientists and consumers…
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