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Species Thamnotettix zelleri

leafhopper - Thamnotettix zelleri - male - female leafhopper - Thamnotettix zelleri unknown Cicadellid - Thamnotettix zelleri green - Thamnotettix zelleri hopper - Thamnotettix zelleri unknown Cicadellid - Thamnotettix zelleri unknown Cicadellid - Thamnotettix zelleri Unknown insect - Thamnotettix zelleri
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 Cicadomorpha (Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers)
Superfamily Membracoidea (Leafhoppers and Treehoppers)
Family Cicadellidae (Typical Leafhoppers)
Subfamily Deltocephalinae
Tribe Athysanini
No Taxon (genus-group Athysanus)
Genus Thamnotettix
No Taxon (subgenus Incertae sedis)
Species zelleri (Thamnotettix zelleri)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
=Jassus zelleri
Explanation of Names
Thamnotettix zelleri (Kirschbaum 1868)
Size
♂ 6.5 mm; ♀ 8 mm
Range
native to the Mediterranean(1), adventive in the New World (CA; first found 1995)(2)
Food
nymphs and adults feed on leaves of oak (Quercus spp.)
Works Cited
1.McKamey S.H. (2001-2010) Checklist of leafhopper species 1758-1955 (Hemiptera: Membracoidea: Cicadellidae and Myserslopiidae)
2.California plant pest & disease report, Vol. 21 (Jan-Jun 2002)
R.J. Gill, ed. 2003. California Department of Food & Agriculture, Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch. 28 pp.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 22 June, 2006 - 8:19pm
Additional contributions by kschnei, v belov
Last updated 27 January, 2012 - 1:19pm

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