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Species Liburniella ornata

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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 Liburniella
Species ornata (Liburniella ornata)
Other Common Names
Ornate Planthopper
Explanation of Names
Liburniella ornata (Stål 1862)
Size
~3 mm
Identification
distinctive(1)
Range
e. NA (QC-FL to ON-MN-NE-TX) & BC-CA; Bermuda - Map (1)(2)
Food
Reported from the sedge Rhynchospora globularis, but probably polyphagous on sedges and maybe grasses(1) (reported from grasses)
Life Cycle
Nymph:
See Also
patterned wings similar to Stobaera, but the latter has flattened antennae(1)
Print References
Spooner, C.S. (1938). The phylogeny of the Hemiptera based on a study of the head capsule. University of Illinois Bulletin. Urbana, 35(70): 1-102.
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