The wings are folded flat over the abdomen. The legs and antennae are light brown. It is usually deposited in the tissue of the leaf along the midrib or a large vein. In some cultivars, the eggs are deposited along the leaf margins. Found almost exclusively on the underside of the leaf, the nymph is colorless at birth but soon turns black and spiny.
Nymphs pass through five nymphal instars before molting into the adult stage.
They grow from 0.4 to 1.8 mm. Wingpads develop after the fourth instar. C, D, E, nymphs. In the United States, the azalea lace bug occurs from New York to Massachusetts southward to Florida and west to Texas. The evergreen azalea cultivars are the preferred hosts of azalea lace bugs, although deciduous cultivars may be attacked as well as mountain laurel and rhododendrons.