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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Free-living Hemipterans (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadas, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers (Cicadoidea) » Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) » Sharpshooters (Cicadellinae) » Cicadellini » Graphocephala » Subgenus Graphocephala (Graphocephala Subgenus Graphocephala) » Rhododendron Leafhopper (Graphocephala fennahi)

Species Graphocephala fennahi - Rhododendron Leafhopper

Classification · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Free-living Hemipterans)
Superfamily Cicadoidea (Cicadas, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers)
Family Cicadellidae (Leafhoppers)
Subfamily Cicadellinae (Sharpshooters)
Tribe Cicadellini
Genus Graphocephala
No Taxon (Subgenus Graphocephala)
Species fennahi (Rhododendron Leafhopper)
Size
adults: ♂ 7.3-8.6 mm, ♀ 8.2-9.0 mm
Identification
forewings green with narrow red bands; red band on corium (outer section of wing bordering the costa) frequently greatly reduced or absent; red bands sometimes of similar width; top of head yellow; abdomen red above, pale yellow below; hindwings dark gray or blackish; male pygofers [not visible in live photos] armed with curving spines flanking the anal tube
several views of a preserved adult (Malcolm Storey)
Range
native to mountains of so. VA, w. Carolinas, and n. GA; apparently carried in the 1920s on ornamental rhododendrons to NY, PA, w. US, and Europe (UK) (Dr. Hamilton, 25.ix.2008) [now widely established in Europe(1)]; this species is liable to turn up anywhere throughout US and so. Canada
Food
all stages feed exclusively on Rhododendron spp.
Print References
Hamilton K.G.A. (1985) The Graphocephala coccinea Complex in North America (Homoptera, Auchenorryncha, Cicadellidae). Entomologische Abhandlungen 49(6): 105-11.
Works Cited
1.Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe
Roques A., Kenis M., Lees D., Lopez-Vaamonde C., Rabitsch W., Rasplus J.-Y., Roy D., eds. 2010. BioRisk 4 Special Issue; 2 vols., 1028 pp.
Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 22 January, 2005 - 8:18pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Robin McLeod, v belov
Last updated 20 October, 2011 - 6:18pm

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