Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Penthimia

Leafhopper - Penthimia americana Leafhopper - Penthimia americana Leafhopper - Penthimia americana Stubby leafhopper - Penthimia americana leafhopper - Penthimia americana - female Penthimia americana - female Cicadellidae, dorsal - Penthimia americana Interesting Penthimia  - Penthimia
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 Penthimiini
Genus Penthimia
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
formerly treated in its own subfamily (Penthimiinae)
Explanation of Names
Penthimia Germar 1821
Numbers
4 spp. in our area(1), ~90 spp. total(2)
NOTE: the notation citing the taxonomic authority of the listed species may have been inputted erroneously. This is pending correction.
Penthimia americana (Fitch, 1851): eastern and central U.S. and Canada; MT, CO
Penthimia floridana (Lawson, 1933): southeastern U.S.
Penthimia nigropicea (Motschulsky, 1863): LA
Penthimia trimaculata (Motschulsky, 1863): LA
Food
often associated with oaks