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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) » Graphocephala » Blue-green Sharpshooter (Graphocephala atropunctata)

Species Graphocephala atropunctata - Blue-green Sharpshooter

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Very simple leafhopper - Graphocephala atropunctata Blue-green Sharpshooter for November - Graphocephala atropunctata Sharpshooter for California in March - Graphocephala atropunctata Blue-green Sharpshooters - Graphocephala atropunctata - male - female Blue-green Sharpshooter? - Graphocephala atropunctata Blue-green Sharpshooter (Graphocephala atropunctata) - Graphocephala atropunctata Blue-green Sharpshooter - Graphocephala atropunctata Blue-green Sharpshooter - Graphocephala atropunctata
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)
Genus Graphocephala
Species atropunctata (Blue-green Sharpshooter)
Other Common Names
Blue Sharpshooter
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Hordnia atropunctata, Hordnia circellata, Neokolla circellata
Food
feeds on willow (Salix spp.) and grape
Internet References
live adult and nymph images (U. of California, Irvine)
host plant (Oregon State U.)
common name reference [Blue-green Sharpshooter] (U. of California, Berkeley)
synonym; PDF doc Neokolla circellata, literature citation, H.H.P. Severin, 1949 (California Dept. of Food and Agriculture)
synonym; PDF doc Hordnia atropunctata, and involvement in Pierce's Disease (K.M. Tubajika et al, USDA)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 29 April, 2005 - 12:09am
Last updated 20 May, 2006 - 3:01am

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