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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) » Deltocephalinae » Fieberiellini » Fieberiella » Privet Leafhopper (Fieberiella florii)

Species Fieberiella florii - Privet Leafhopper

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
VERY SMALL (about 1 mm) on hibiscus bud....what is it??? - Fieberiella florii - female Privet Leafhopper - Fieberiella florii Leafhopper nymph? - Fieberiella florii leafhopper? - Fieberiella florii Leafhopper - Fieberiella florii Fieberiella florii? - Fieberiella florii Privet leafhopper from North Central Texas - Fieberiella florii Fieberiella florii
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 Deltocephalinae
Tribe Fieberiellini
Genus Fieberiella
Species florii (Privet Leafhopper)
Other Common Names
Flor's Leafhopper, Cherry Leafhopper
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Fieberiella florii (Stål)
Orig. Comb: Selenocephalus florii Stål, 1864
Size
6.5-8.0 mm(1)
Identification
Adult cherry leafhoppers are dark brown and their shape and color mimic the buds of their hosts.(2)
Range
adventive across US and s. Canada - Map (3), native to Europe
Food
Feeds on a wide variety of broad-leafed, woody trees, shrubs and vines
Favorite host plants seem to be privet, fruit trees in the Rose Family (cherries, plums, peaches, apricots and apples, for instance) and other woody plants in the rose family.
Life Cycle
Overwinters as eggs (sometimes nymphs). Wingless nymphs hatch out and eventually develop into the winged adults.
Remarks
Important pest known to spread plant diseases, incl. phytoplasmas, some of which cause serious diseases in Rosaceae fruit trees(4)(2)
earliest NA record: CT near NYC 1918(5)
Internet References
Species page - British Bugs(1)
Fact sheet - Univ. Calif.(2)
Works Cited
1.Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera
2.University of California Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
4.Garden Insects of North America : The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs (Princeton Field Guides)
Whitney Cranshaw. 2004. Princeton University Press.
5.Short-horned bugs (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha) introduced to North America
Contributed by Richard Leung on 25 January, 2005 - 9:27pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 22 June, 2023 - 2:27pm

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