Species Norvellina seminuda

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

Illinois data point - Norvellina seminuda

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 Deltocephalinae

Genus Norvellina

Species seminuda (Norvellina seminuda)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Originally described by Say in 1830 as Jassus seminudus

Explanation of Names

Latin for "half naked"

Food

Feeds on fluids from plants. Best known as as one of several leafhoppers that transmit X-Disease in stone fruits such as peaches.

See Also

According to Andy Hamilton:

Internet References

Strategies for Management of X-Disease of Stone Fruits

Contributed by Chuck Entz on 11 August, 2006 - 4:44pm

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