Species Fieberiella florii - Privet Leafhopper

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

distinctive leaf hopper - Fieberiella florii

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Free-living Hemipterans)

Superfamily Cicadoidea

Family Cicadellidae (Leafhoppers)

Subfamily Deltocephalinae

Genus Fieberiella

Species florii (Privet Leafhopper)

Other Common Names

Flor's leafhopper

cherry leafhopper

Explanation of Names

Named after Gustav August Adam von Flor (1829-1883), entomologist from a German-speaking area of what is now Estonia. He published the original descriptions of many European Hemiptera.

Range

United States and Canada. Also an important pest in Europe

Food

Feeds on a wide variety of broad-leafed, woody trees, shrubs and vines

Favorite host plants seem to be privet, fruit trees in the Rose Family (cherries, plums, peaches, apricots and apples, for instance) and other woody plants in the rose family.

Life Cycle

Overwinters as eggs (sometimes nymphs). Wingless nymphs hatch out and eventually develop into the winged adults.

Remarks

Known to spread plant diseases. Recent attention has been to its role in transmitting single-celled organisms called phytoplasmas, some of which cause serious diseases in Rose-Family fruit trees.

Print References

Cranshaw, pp. 364-365 (1)

Internet References

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/r105301811.html

Works Cited

1.	Garden Insects of North America : The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs (Princeton Field Guides) By Whitney Cranshaw

Contributed by Richard Leung on 25 January, 2005 - 9:27pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz
Last updated 13 May, 2006 - 9:11am

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