Species Homalodisca liturata - Smoketree Sharpshooter

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Food · See Also

Smoke-tree Sharpshooter - Homalodisca liturata

Homalodisca near liturata - Homalodisca liturata - female

Smoketree Sharpshooter in California (August) - Homalodisca liturata

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 Cicadellinae (Sharpshooters)

Genus Homalodisca

Species liturata (Smoketree Sharpshooter)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Homalodisca lacerta (most common name in recent literature up until 2003)

Phera lacerta

Explanation of Names

liturata is Latin for "rubbed or blotted out, erased"

Identification

The dull red patch on the wing distinguishes the smoke-tree sharpshooter from the citrus sharpshooter, H. vitripennis.

Food

Taps into the water-conducting tissues of plant stems and filters out nutrients

Contributed by Chuck Entz on 3 August, 2006 - 12:17am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Harsi S. Parker
Last updated 16 September, 2009 - 12:45am

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