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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Free-living Hemipterans (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoroidea) » Acanaloniid Planthoppers (Acanaloniidae) » Acanalonia

Genus Acanalonia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Hopper nymph on bitternut hickory - Acanalonia bivittata

Two-striped Planthopper (Acanalonia bivittata) ?? - Acanalonia bivittata

planthopper nymph - Acanalonia servillei

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Free-living Hemipterans)

Superfamily Fulgoroidea (Planthoppers)

Family Acanaloniidae (Acanaloniid Planthoppers)

Genus Acanalonia

Explanation of Names

Acanalonia Spinola 1839

Numbers

19 spp. in our area, ~70 total(1)

Size

3-10+ mm

Identification

usually green with broad prominently-veined wings held vertically, mimicking a leaf or seed pod

key to spp in(2)

Range

In our area: e NA to CA (BG data)

New World (so. Canada to South America)(1)

Habitat

shoots and leaves of trees and shrubs

Season

mostly: May-Oct (BG data)

Remarks

Selected nymph images for comparison:

A. bivittata

A. conica

A. servillei

A. pumila

See Also

Similar to Issidae, with no spines on hind tibiae. Wings broad, held parallel to the body, wing venation reticulate, lacking pustules in the clavus, lacking marginal crossveins, and lacking wax on the wings. Mostly green or pink in color.(1)

Print References

Doering, K.C. 1932. The genus Acanalonia in America north of Mexico (Fulgoridae, Homoptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 25: 758-786.

Internet References

Genus Page - Univ. Delaware(1)

Works Cited

1.	Bartlett C.R. (2012-) Planthoppers of North America

2.	The planthopper genus Acanalonia in the United States (Homoptera: Issidae): male and female genitalic morphology Freund R., Wilson S.W. 1995. Insecta Mundi 9: 195-215.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 25 April, 2005 - 12:53am
Additional contributions by cotinis, john and jane balaban, Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 1 September, 2017 - 4:56pm

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