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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoromorpha) » Fulgoroidea » Issid Planthoppers (Issidae) » Issinae » Thioniini » Thioniini incertae sedis (Thionia) » Thionia elliptica

Species Thionia elliptica

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Issid Planthoppers - Lateral - Thionia elliptica

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 Issidae (Issid Planthoppers)

Subfamily Issinae

Tribe Thioniini

Genus Thionia (Thioniini incertae sedis)

Species elliptica (Thionia elliptica)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Thionia elliptica (Germar, 1830)

Size

7 mm to 7.5 mm (1)

Identification

Kimberley Shropshire, University of Delaware

Range

e. US (TX-GA-NJ-MO), Ont. - Map (2)(3)(4), most records se US

Food

Known host plants: Quercus ilicifolia (bear oak), Q. marilandica (blackjack oak), Fagaceae (3)

See Also

Thionia obrienae Wilson - Range: TX (mostly Edwards Plateau)

Print References

Wheeler, A.G., Jr. and S.W. Wilson. 1987. Life history of Thionia elliptica (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) with description of a new Thionia species from Texas. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 95: 440-451.

Internet References

Genus page - Univ. Delaware(3)

BOLD Systems - images of DNA supported specimens (5)

Works Cited

1.	Contribution to the Taxonomy of the Subfamily Issinae in America North of Mexico Kathleen C. Doering. 1938. University of Kansas Science Bulletin, v.25, No. 20, p.447.

2.	Dmitriev D.A. (2003-) 3I interactive keys and taxonomic databases

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

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 25 April, 2005 - 2:16am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Robert Lord Zimlich, v belov
Last updated 25 January, 2023 - 3:44pm

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