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Genus Athysanus

Leaf Hopper - Athysanus argentarius Light-colored leafhopper - Athysanus argentarius silver leafhopper nymph - Athysanus argentarius Hopper 4 - Athysanus argentarius - male Philaenus spumarius ? - Athysanus argentarius White-costaed leafhopper - Athysanus argentarius Athysanus argentarius? - Athysanus argentarius Athysanus argentarius ? - Athysanus argentarius
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 Athysanini
No Taxon (genus-group Athysanus)
Genus Athysanus
Explanation of Names
Athysanus Burmeister 1838
Numbers
A single (adventive) species in our area, ~25 spp. total(1)
Range
mostly Palaearctic, adventive in NA(1)
Works Cited
1.Dmitriev D.A. (2003-) 3I interactive keys and taxonomic databases
Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 26 January, 2005 - 9:14pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 29 May, 2012 - 11:43pm

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