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Species Orientus ishidae - Japanese Leafhopper

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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 Deltocephalinae
Tribe Athysanini
No Taxon (incertae sedis)
Genus Orientus
Species ishidae (Japanese Leafhopper)
Explanation of Names
Orientus ishidae (Matsumura 1902)
Size
4.3-6.5 mm(1)
Range
native to e. Asia, adventive in NA(1)(2)
Habitat
hardwood & mixed forests, forest edges/clearings, meadows(1)
Food
on various shrubs(1)
Remarks
earliest NA record: NJ 1919(2)