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Species Homalodisca liturata - Smoketree Sharpshooter

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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
See Also
Homalodisca vitripennis - Glassy-winged Sharpshooter
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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