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Species Asarcopus palmarum

Fulgoroidea? - Asarcopus palmarum - female

Piglet Bug or Issid Bug - Asarcopus palmarum - female

Asarcopus palmarum, female - Asarcopus palmarum - female

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 Caliscelidae (Piglet Bugs)

Subfamily Caliscelinae

Tribe Caliscelini

Genus Asarcopus

Species palmarum (Asarcopus palmarum)

Explanation of Names

Asarcopus palmarum Horváth 1921

Identification

Sexually dimorphic in the shape of the head and wing color/shape. The male is shinier, has more color contrast, and has a humped thorax and an indentation at the junction of the thorax and abdomen, whereas the female is smoothly tubular. Specimens from California are straw-colored with darker brown markings.(1)

Brachypterous and macropterous adult specimens

Range

native to N. Africa, adventive in CA & TX(2)

Food

hosts: various palms(2)

Internet References

taxon page(2)

Works Cited

1.	Taxonomic Changes in North American Issidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) O'Brien, Lois B. 1988. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 81(6): 865-869.

2.	Bartlett C.R. and contributors (2017-) Planthoppers of North America

Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 14 January, 2016 - 7:12pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 16 October, 2016 - 4:41pm

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