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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 » Athysanini » genus-group Athysanus » Athysanus » Silver Leafhopper (Athysanus argentarius)

Species Athysanus argentarius - Silver Leafhopper

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

unidentified leafhopper - 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

Species argentarius (Silver Leafhopper)

Explanation of Names

Athysanus argentarius Metcalf 1955

Latin 'silvery'

Size

6.5-8 mm(1)

Identification

Note black line between eyes:

Range

Native to the Palaearctic, adventive in NA (ne. US and e. Canada)(2)

Habitat

coastal and inland grassland habitats(1)

Food

Feeds on grasses, and there is some evidence it prefers the introduced species of grasses so often found in lawns and hayfields.

Life Cycle

Implicated in the spread of a plant disease called aster yellows, for which there is no cure.

Remarks

earliest NA record: MA 1920(3)

Print References

Bess J., O'Neill K., Kemp W. (2004) Leafhopper assemblages on native and reseeded grasslands in southwestern Montana. Western North American Naturalist 64(4): 518-531.

Summers C.G., Stapleton J.J. (2002) Management of corn leafhopper (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) and corn stunt disease in sweet corn using reflective mulch. Journal of Economic Entomology. 95(2): 325-330.

Internet References

Fact sheet(4)

Species page(1)

Works Cited

1.	Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera

2.	Dmitriev D.A. (2003-) 3I interactive keys and taxonomic databases

3.	Short-horned bugs (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha) introduced to North America

4.	Invasive species database - Invasive invertebrates

Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 26 January, 2005 - 9:22pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, Harsi S. Parker
Last updated 2 July, 2018 - 3:42pm

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