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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Free-living Hemipterans (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadoidea » Spittlebugs (Cercopidae) » Lepyronia » Diamondbacked Spittlebug (Lepyronia quadrangularis)

Species Lepyronia quadrangularis - Diamondbacked Spittlebug

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Print References · Works Cited
Diamondbacked Spittlebug - Lepyronia quadrangularis Diamondbacked Spittlebug? - Lepyronia quadrangularis spittlebug - Lepyronia quadrangularis spittlebug - Lepyronia quadrangularis Spittlebug? - Lepyronia quadrangularis Diamondbacked Spittlebug - Lepyronia quadrangularis Spittlebug - Lepyronia quadrangularis Diamondbacked Spittlebug - Lepyronia quadrangularis
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 Lepyronia
Species quadrangularis (Diamondbacked Spittlebug)
Other Common Names
Diamond-backed Spittle Bug
Explanation of Names
lepyr, -o is Greek for a shell, husk (1)
Numbers
Four spp., one of which is questionable per Arnett (1985) (2)
Size
8-10 mm (2)
Range
Locally abundant in weedy areas east of the Rocky Mountains.
Print References
Doering, K.C. 1922. Biology and Morphology of Lepyronia quadrangularis (Say)—Homoptera, Cercopidae. Univ. Kans. Sci. Bull. 14(21):515-587. This document could be downloaded from this site: http://www.archive.org/details/universityofkans14univ
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
By Donald J. Borror
2.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Claude Pilon
Last updated 14 December, 2008 - 3:41pm

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