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Species Aphrophora alni - European Alder Spittlebug

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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 Cicadomorpha (Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers)
Superfamily Cercopoidea (Spittlebugs)
Family Aphrophoridae (Typical Spittlebugs)
Subfamily Aphrophorinae
Tribe Aphrophorini
Genus Aphrophora
No Taxon (Subgenus Aphrophora)
Species alni (European Alder Spittlebug)
Range
native to, and widespread across the Palaearctic, adventive in NA(1)
Food
polyphagous; nymphal hosts include various herbaceous dicots and deciduous tree saplings, adults on various deciduous trees/shrubs(1)
Remarks
earliest NA record: ON 1927(2)
Internet References
species page(3)
Works Cited
1.Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 2. Homoptera and Heteroptera
Lehr, P. A., ed. 1988. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House.
2.Short-horned bugs (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha) introduced to North America
3.Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 3 July, 2006 - 10:00am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 29 August, 2023 - 6:16am

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