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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Free-living Hemipterans (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadoidea » Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) » Sharpshooters (Cicadellinae) » Proconiini » Paraulacizes » Speckled Sharpshooter (Paraulacizes irrorata)

Species Paraulacizes irrorata - Speckled Sharpshooter

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Cicadellinae (Sharpshooters)
Tribe Proconiini
Genus Paraulacizes
Species irrorata (Speckled Sharpshooter)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Orig. Comb: Cicada irrorata Fabricius 1794
Explanation of Names
irrora (L). Sparkle with dew (1)
Numbers
1 sp.
Identification
Nymph: hairy face and short hind legs are characteristic.
Range
TX-FL-NY-KS / adj. Can.
Food
Asteraceae: Cirsium altissimum (tall thistle), Cirsium sp., Conyza canadensis (horseweed), Lactuca serriola (prickly lettuce), Silphium integrifolium (wholeleaf rosinweed); Poaceae: Elymus virginicus (Virginia wild rye), Sorghum sp. (cultivated sorghum).
Life Cycle
They overwinter as adults, lay eggs in the spring.
Remarks
The mymarid wasp, Gonatocerus fasciatus is an egg parasitoid for P. irrorata.
Print References
Mason, C.E. & Yonke, T.R., 1971. Life history of four Draeculacephala species and Paraulacizes irrorata (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 64: 1393-1399.
Internet References
Paraulacizes irrorata (Fabricius, 1794)
BioOne, Florida Entomologist
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
By Donald J. Borror
Contributed by Richard Leung on 24 February, 2005 - 7:28pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, Ted Kropiewnicki
Last updated 6 January, 2011 - 11:01pm

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