Species Latalus personatus

Classification · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Food

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 Cicadellidae (Leafhoppers)

Subfamily Deltocephalinae

Genus Latalus

Species personatus (Latalus personatus)

Numbers

Nearctica lists 11 species of Latalus.

Size

3-4mm

Range

Canada and northern U.S.

Habitat

Grassy areas.

Food

Poverty grass (Danthonia spicata), and other grasses.

Contributed by tom murray on 2 November, 2005 - 7:47am

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