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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoromorpha) » Fulgoroidea » Acanaloniid Planthoppers (Acanaloniidae)

Family Acanaloniidae - Acanaloniid Planthoppers

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited
Wisteria sucker 1 - Acanalonia bivittata Acanalonia servillei Acanalonia conica (Say) - Acanalonia conica Flatid Planthopper - Acanalonia Hopper nymph - Acanalonia Acanalonia nymph, maybe bivittata? - Acanalonia Insecta - Acanalonia Acanaloniid Planthopper Nympy - Lateral - Acanalonia servillei
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 Fulgoromorpha (Planthoppers)
Superfamily Fulgoroidea
Family Acanaloniidae (Acanaloniid Planthoppers)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
sometimes treated as a subfamily (Acanaloniinae) of Issidae
Explanation of Names
Acanaloniidae Amyot & Serville 1843
Numbers
20 spp. in 2 genera in our area (all but one in Acanalonia), >80 spp. in 14 genera worldwide(1)
Identification
usually green with broad prominently-veined wings held vertically, mimicking a leaf or seed pod
Key to genera(1)
See Also
Issidae
Comment by Bill Reynolds:
Acanaloniidae: wing veins are reticulated and cells do not line up into even rows

Flatidae: although wing veins are reticulated, they seem to line up more evenly into rows
Internet References
Taxon page(1)
Works Cited
1.Bartlett C.R. and contributors (2017-) Planthoppers of North America
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 25 August, 2017 - 10:45am

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