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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers (Cicadomorpha) » Leafhoppers and Treehoppers (Membracoidea) » Typical Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) » Iassinae » Gyponini » Ponana » subgenus Ponana (Ponana subgenus Ponana) » Ponana quadralaba

Species Ponana quadralaba

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Works Cited
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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 Cicadomorpha (Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers)
Superfamily Membracoidea (Leafhoppers and Treehoppers)
Family Cicadellidae (Typical Leafhoppers)
Subfamily Iassinae
Tribe Gyponini
Genus Ponana
No Taxon (subgenus Ponana)
Species quadralaba (Ponana quadralaba)
Explanation of Names
Ponana quadralaba DeLong 1942
Size
♂ 7mm, ♀ 8.5mm
Identification
"A small yellowish species with four black spots on anterior portion of pronotum. Vertex broadly rounded, more than one-half as long at middle as basal width between the eyes. Yellow; pronotum with four black spots in a circle just back of margin. Elytra brownish with a few brown blotches on clavus, apex of clavus, and one on corium." — DeLong, 1942 [greenish areas appear yellow in dried specimens]
Range
ON(1) south to (at least) Mexico
Works Cited
1.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 24 October, 2007 - 3:53pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov, antarctica
Last updated 24 November, 2020 - 6:38pm

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