Species Neophilaenus lineatus

Classification · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Internet References

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 Neophilaenus

Species lineatus (Neophilaenus lineatus)

Identification

The pale wing edge and the outer anteapical cell smaller than the inner one are diagnostic. Also the tip of the head does not have the pair of black spots characteristic of the meadow spittlebug.

Range

Widespread in Europe, and reported in Canada and the northeast U.S.

Habitat

Moist meadows

Food

Grasses

Internet References

European Journal of Entomology

Contributed by tom murray on 4 August, 2005 - 6:21pm
Last updated 28 October, 2005 - 1:50pm

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