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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Peregrinus

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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 Fulgoromorpha (Planthoppers)
Superfamily Delphacoidea
Family Delphacidae (Delphacid Planthoppers)
Subfamily Delphacinae
Tribe Delphacini
Genus Peregrinus
Explanation of Names
Peregrinus Kirkaldy 1904
'foreigner, stranger'
Numbers
A single species in our area, 2 spp. total(1)
Range
Cosmopolitan, most abundant in tropical and warm temperate regions; in our area, so. US north to NJ in the east(1)