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Species Idiocerus stigmaticalis

Idiocerus stigmaticalis - Idiocerus stigmaticalis

Leafhopper nymph - Idiocerus stigmaticalis

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 Cicadomorpha (Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers)

Superfamily Membracoidea (Leafhoppers and Treehoppers)

Family Cicadellidae (Typical Leafhoppers)

Subfamily Eurymelinae

Tribe Idiocerini

Genus Idiocerus

Species stigmaticalis (Idiocerus stigmaticalis)

Explanation of Names

Idiocerus stigmaticalis Lewis 1834

Size

6-7 mm(1)

Identification

The very large appendix (membranous flap on the wing tip) and very short head indicate Idiocerus; the way the crossveins align on the wing tip indicates the species. -- Andy Hamilton

Range

native to, and widespread across Europe, adventive in NA(2), now widespread in ne. US & adjacent Canada (NF-ON)(3)

Season

Jul-Oct in the UK(1); this and other related species of Idiocerus overwinter as adults, becoming sexually mature in spring. -- Andy Hamilton

Food

hosts: willows(1)

Remarks

earliest NA record: MA 1924(2)

Internet References

Bantock & Botting (2010)(1)

Works Cited

1.	Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera

2.	Short-horned bugs (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha) introduced to North America

3.	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.

Contributed by Claude Pilon on 23 August, 2007 - 3:47pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 8:52am

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