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Species Javesella pellucida

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (True Hoppers)
Infraorder Fulgoromorpha (Planthoppers)
Superfamily Delphacoidea
Family Delphacidae (Delphacid Planthoppers)
Subfamily Delphacinae
Tribe Delphacini
Genus Javesella
Species pellucida (Javesella pellucida)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Javesella pellucida (Fabricius)
Orig. Comb: Delphacodes pellucida Fabricius, 1794
Explanation of Names
pellucida (L). 'transparent' (1)
Numbers
8 spp. n. of Mex. (2)
Size
brachypterous 2.1-3.4 mm,
macropterous 4-5 mm
Identification
The dark ring around the tip of the first antennal segment is distinctive for this common insect. (per Andy Hamilton)

Dets. A. Hamilton
head wider between eyes than in Isodelphax or Toya propinqua; wings lack dark mark where they meet over abdomen; antenna darker at base than at expanded tip of second segment (before the bristle); large leaflike calcar (spur) on hind leg. [adapted from Dr Hamilton's comments]
Range
CA-FL-NF-AK / W. Indies - Map (3)(4)(BG data)(5); (holarctic) (6)
one of our most widespread common Delphacid species, second only to Muirodelphax arvensis (comment per Andy Hamilton)
Habitat
wet habitats, cultivated fields, sedge meadows
Season
mostly: Jun-Oct (BG data)
even May-Aug in YT! (7)
Food
Polyphagous on a grasses, sedges, and bulrushes; also uses certain conifers and horsetails in Europe (8)\
Switch host grasses from one generation to the next due to nitrogen availability.(9)
Life Cycle
one generation per year in the north, and two in the south; overwinters as a nymph
Remarks
vector of European wheat striate mosaic virus (EWSMV), a pathogen of several cereals
Internet References
Genus Page - Univ. Delaware(10)
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.
2.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
3.Dmitriev D.A. (2003-) 3I interactive keys and taxonomic databases
4.Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska
Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.
5.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
6.Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 2. Homoptera and Heteroptera
Lehr, P. A., ed. 1988. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House.
7.Delphacid planthoppers of the Yukon
S.W. Wilson. 1997. pp. 377–385 in: H.V. Danks and J.A. Downes (Eds.), Insects of the Yukon. Ottawa. 1034 pp.
8.Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera
9.Insect Ecology: Behavior, Populations and Communities
P. W. Price, R. F. Denno, M. D. Eubanks. 2011. Cambridge University Press.
10.Bartlett C.R. and contributors (2017-) Planthoppers of North America