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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers (Cicadomorpha) » Leafhoppers and Treehoppers (Membracoidea) » Typical Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) » Microleafhoppers (Typhlocybinae) » Erythroneurini » Zygina » Zygina flammigera

Species Zygina flammigera

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
White with Reddish Leafhopper - Zygina flammigera Non-native Zygina flammigera in WA - Zygina flammigera Non-native Zygina flammigera in WA - Zygina flammigera Zygina flammigera - female Zygina flammigera - female Zygina flammigera Typhlocybinae? - Zygina flammigera Leafhopper - Zygina flammigera
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 Cicadomorpha (Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers)
Superfamily Membracoidea (Leafhoppers and Treehoppers)
Family Cicadellidae (Typical Leafhoppers)
Subfamily Typhlocybinae (Microleafhoppers)
Tribe Erythroneurini
Genus Zygina
Species flammigera (Zygina flammigera)
Explanation of Names
Zygina (Zygina) flammigera (Fourcroy 1785)
flammigera = 'flame-bearing'
Identification
The zigzag red stripe is highly characteristic. Nymphs have enormously long, fine antennae, longer than the whole body.
Range
native to Europe, adventive in NA (BC-WA)(1)
Food
Host plants in the Rosaceae family, oaks, etc.
Remarks
earliest NA record: BC 1950(2)
Works Cited
1.Dmitriev D.A. (2003-) 3I interactive keys and taxonomic databases
2.Short-horned bugs (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha) introduced to North America
Contributed by Chuck Entz on 8 May, 2007 - 11:55pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 18 February, 2013 - 4:32pm

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