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Species Macropsis ocellata

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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 Macropsis
No Taxon (subgenus Macropsis)
Species ocellata (Macropsis ocellata)
Explanation of Names
Macropsis ocellata Provancher 1872
Range
native to Europe, adventive in NA(1): NS-ON(2) south to...
Food
hosts: Salix alba, S. fragilis(1)
Remarks
earliest NA record: QC 1872(1)
Works Cited
1.Short-horned bugs (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha) introduced to North America
2.Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska
Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.