Genus Aphrophora

Classification · Numbers · Remarks · Internet References

Aphrophora parallella - Aphrophora cribrata

Saratoga spittlebug - Aphrophora saratogensis

Auchenorrhyncha 6.26.09 01a - Aphrophora

SpittleBug Nymph - Two-lined? - Aphrophora quadrinotata

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 Cercopidae (Spittlebugs)

Genus Aphrophora

Numbers

Nearctica lists 19 species.

Remarks

Spittlebug nymphs wander away from their spittle masses, and either start new ones, or enter those of other nymphs. Aphrophora nymphs hold the record, of one spittle mass over a foot long containing about 100 individuals! (Comment by Andy Hamilton).

Internet References

Ohio Naturalist. The Food habits of some Aphrophora larvae.

The Ecology of Commanster

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 27 September, 2004 - 8:38pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 6 March, 2009 - 4:48pm

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