Weird night visitor insect

[kinetic]

Last night this little guy flew in and landed on the dome
monitor. At first I thought it was a moth but it has a long
nose on it and looks like an anteater :)
I tried to get some closeups of it before it flew away.
He was quite placid and with some nudging I could get shots
from both sides of him.

Does anyone know what this is? Some sort of sap sucker or cicada?
Or simply a moth....?
Strange that something like this would be airborne at night, even though
there was still a 3/4 moon.

Steve

[Liz]

Wow, very strange!!

[troypiggo]

I always get my treehoppers, leafhoppers, and planthoppers all mixed up, but I'm pretty sure it's one of those. If I had to pick one, I'd say planthopper. Have a look at some of the images on bugguide.net
http://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=planthopper

[kinetic]

thanks Troy, Liz,
I had a look through....looks like this guy is pretty close?
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[URL]http://bugguide.net/node/view/30539/bgimage (http://bugguide.net/node/view/208389)

Steve

[Liz]

Ah, should have know it was a Rhynchomitra microrhina!! :lol:
A planthopper - never heard of them, :shrug: ... well there you go.

[Kevnool]

Did you squash it Steve after the shot ?

One weird little critter.

Cheers Kev.

[[1ponders]]

this looks close

Thanatodictya praeferata (plant hopper) (http://agspsrv34.agric.wa.gov.au/Ento/images/T_praeferata.jpg)

[astroron]

That Poor insect has a pain in the stomach (pin):lol:

[troypiggo]

Not sure if any of you guys are interested, but I wrote this search engine plugin for BugGuide.net

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=bugguide

[DiamondDust]

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::lol: