Species Philaronia abjecta

Classification · Identification

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 Cercopidae (Spittlebugs)

Genus Philaronia

Species abjecta (Philaronia abjecta)

Identification

This is the only genus with orange nymphs. I have seen them from both eastern (TN) and western (MT) sites. The western species is P. abjecta, the eastern one is P. canadensis. The single western species in the USA. I have seen nymphs from MT and they are also yellow-orange, like this one.

… Andy Hamilton

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 22 October, 2008 - 8:14pm

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