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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 » Gypona » Subgenus Obtusana (Gypona Subgenus Obtusana) » Gypona melanota

Species Gypona melanota

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Print References · 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 Gypona
No Taxon (Subgenus Obtusana)
Species melanota (Gypona melanota)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Syn: Gypona contana
Explanation of Names
Gypona melanota (Spångberg, 1878)
Size
♂ 9mm, ♀ 11.5mm
Identification
"A species with a broadly rounded vertex and dimorphic coloration in the male and female. Vertex broadly rounded, twice as broad between eyes as median length. Pronotum much wider than vertex and more than twice as long.
Female yellowish with a small conspicuous black spot on each side of outer disc of pronotum, elytra often greenish or appearing smoky.
Male partially or entirely shining black. The spots on pronotum conspicuous unless the entire pronotum is black." — DeLong, 1942
Range
transcontinental U.S. - Map (1), mostly New England to Chicago
Print References
Spångberg, J. (1878) Species Gyponae, generis Homopterum. Bihang Kongl. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. 5 (3): 5-76.
Works Cited
1.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 30 May, 2005 - 4:26pm
Additional contributions by tom murray, Mike Quinn, TurtleDude, antarctica
Last updated 5 March, 2023 - 11:08am

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