Piotr Naskrecki / Fulgorid Planthopper (Pterodictya reticularis) with wax that easily breaks off to allow it to escape when attacked, Sipaliwini, Surinam

Piotr Naskrecki / Fulgorid Planthopper (Pterodictya reticularis), Barbilla National Park, Costa Rica

James Christensen / Fulgorid Planthopper (Pterodictya reticularis) pair feeding on sap, showing plumes of excreted white wax, Colon, Panama

James Christensen / Fulgorid Planthopper (Pterodictya reticularis) feeding on sap, showing plumes of excreted white wax, Colon, Panama

Doug Wechsler / Reticulated planthoppers (Pterodictya reticularis) on Zanthoxylon, Ecuador

Doug Wechsler / Reticulated planthoppers (Pterodictya reticularis) on (Zanthoxylon) at night, Ecuador

Doug Wechsler / Reticulated planthopper (Pterodictya reticularis) Rio Napo, Amazonia, Ecuador

Chien Lee / Fulgorid Planthopper (Pterodictya reticularis), mimicking being killed by fungus, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

Morley Read / Wax-tailed bug (Pterodictya reticularis) in the rainforest understory, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, July 2018.