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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 » Opsiini » Opsiina » Opsius » Tamarix Leafhopper (Opsius stactogalus)

Species Opsius stactogalus - Tamarix Leafhopper

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Leafhopper - Opsius stactogalus Opsius stactogalus Opsius stactogalus hopper 19 - Opsius stactogalus The introduced hoppers are doing well and the tamarix shows signs of damage - Opsius stactogalus Which Leafhoper is this? - Opsius stactogalus Leafhopper Opsius stactogalus feeding on saltcedar plants - Opsius stactogalus Cicadellidae - Opsius stactogalus
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 Opsiini
Subtribe Opsiina
Genus Opsius
Species stactogalus (Tamarix Leafhopper)
Explanation of Names
Opsius stactogalus Fieber 1866
Identification
Adult: Vertex and scutellum yellowish-green ● pronotum yellowish-green anteriorly, green posteriorly ● FW green with appendix and apical cells light brownish ● costal margin whitish, often with a few blackish dots. (1)
Range
most NA records from sw US - Map (2)
native to the warmer parts of the Palaearctic, introduced into NA at several localities (TX, CA, NJ...) in early 1900s and by 1939 was widespread throughout so. & e. US as far as MN, then reached e. Canada (ON) and BC (Hamilton 1983b)
Food
on saltcedar (Tamarix)
Works Cited
1.Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) of Canada and Alaska
Bryan P. Beirne. 1956. The Canadian Entomologist, Volume LXXXVIII, Supplement 2.
2.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Claude Pilon on 30 August, 2007 - 11:14am
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Mike Quinn, Robert Lord Zimlich, v belov
Last updated 29 July, 2023 - 9:54pm

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