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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) » Deltocephalinae » Scaphytopiini » Scaphytopius » subgenus Cloanthanus (Scaphytopius subgenus Cloanthanus) » Yellowfaced Leafhopper (Scaphytopius frontalis)

Species Scaphytopius frontalis - Yellowfaced Leafhopper

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

Deltocephalus flavicosta ??? - Scaphytopius frontalis

Deep blue hopper - Scaphytopius frontalis

Leafhopper - Scaphytopius frontalis - female

Please help us to identify this Leafhopper. - Scaphytopius frontalis

dark hopper with white spots - Scaphytopius frontalis

hopper w/ wings spread - Scaphytopius frontalis

Scaphytopius acutus? - Scaphytopius frontalis

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 Deltocephalinae

Tribe Scaphytopiini

Genus Scaphytopius

No Taxon (subgenus Cloanthanus)

Species frontalis (Yellowfaced Leafhopper)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Scaphytopius frontalis (Van Duzee)

Orig. Comb: Platymetopius frontalis Van Duzee, 1890

Size

3.5-4.5 mm (1)

Identification

Vertex and thorax pale yellow, heavily marked with deep fuscous-brown so as to appear largely dark; forewing ochreous, closely irrorated with deep fuscous-brown so as to appear largely that color, with diagonal whitish areas in the costal region, and small, rounded, whitish areas in the cells. (1)

Range

mostly e. US, plus scattered w. US records - Map (2)

Habitat

common in weedy areas --Andy Hamilton

Season

mostly May-Oct (BG data)

Remarks

darkest species in this genus

See Also

Scaphytopius loricatus (Van Duzee) - Range: sw US, FL

Print References

Van Duzee, E.P. (1890) New North American Homoptera. The Canadian Entomologist 22: 110–112.

Works Cited

1.	Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) of Canada and Alaska Bryan P. Beirne. 1956. The Canadian Entomologist, Volume LXXXVIII, Supplement 2.

2.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by tom murray on 4 July, 2005 - 6:05pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, ceiseman, Robert Lord Zimlich, v belov
Last updated 9 December, 2023 - 8:36pm

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