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Species Pissonotus flabellatus

Pissonotus flabellatus ? - Pissonotus flabellatus ??? - Pissonotus flabellatus - male Delphacid - Pissonotus flabellatus Pissonotus - Pissonotus flabellatus Hopper - Pissonotus flabellatus Pissonotus flabellatus - male - female Pissonotus flabellatus Pissonotus flabellatus
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 Fulgoromorpha (Planthoppers)
Superfamily Delphacoidea
Family Delphacidae (Delphacid Planthoppers)
Subfamily Delphacinae
Tribe Delphacini
Genus Pissonotus
Species flabellatus (Pissonotus flabellatus)
Explanation of Names
Pissonotus (Phyllodictus) flabellatus (Ball)
Orig. Comb: Phyllodinus flabellatus Ball, 1903
Identification
very wide front legs are characteristic (P. tesselatus from se. US also has wide legs)
Range
e. N. Amer. - Map (1)(2)(3)
Habitat
Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia,
Print References
Ball, E.D. (1903) Some new North American Homoptera. Canadian Entomologist 35: 227-232.
Ball, E.D. (1926). The genus Phyllodinus and its allies (Homoptera-Fulgoridae) including the description of the new genus and species. The Florida Entomologist, 10(2): 17-20.
Internet References
Genus page - Univ. Delaware(2)