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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) » Eurymelinae » Macropsini » Oncopsis » Oncopsis flavicollis

Species Oncopsis flavicollis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Oncopsis ? - Oncopsis flavicollis Oncopsis ? - Oncopsis flavicollis Oncopsis ? - Oncopsis flavicollis Oncopsis - Oncopsis flavicollis - female Oncopsis - Oncopsis flavicollis - female Oncopsis - Oncopsis flavicollis Macropsis canadensis or infuscata - Oncopsis flavicollis - male Macropsis canadensis or infuscata - Oncopsis flavicollis - male
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 Eurymelinae
Tribe Macropsini
Genus Oncopsis
Species flavicollis (Oncopsis flavicollis)
Explanation of Names
Oncopsis flavicollis (Linnaeus 1761)
Size
4.5‒5.5 mm(1)
Identification
very variable
"There are similar-looking forms of other species further west, but no native species in the east has the yellow markings on the wings confined to the base." ―K.G.A. Hamilton
Range
native to Europe, adventive in our area
Food
hosts: Birches
Remarks
earliest NA record: QC 2007(2)
Internet References
Species page(1)
Works Cited
1.Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera
2.Short-horned bugs (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha) introduced to North America
Contributed by Claude Pilon on 6 June, 2007 - 8:57am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 14 September, 2023 - 7:12pm

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