Species Scolops pungens

Classification · Identification

Dictyopharid Planthopper - Scolops pungens

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 Fulgoroidea (Planthoppers)

Family Dictyopharidae (Dictyopharid Planthoppers)

Genus Scolops

Species pungens (Scolops pungens)

Identification

The wing margin has dark markings, unlike S. angustatus which has an unmarked wing margin. The venation is simpler than in S. sulcipes. (per Andy Hamilton here)

Contributed by Joyce Gross on 13 August, 2008 - 7:34pm

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