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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) » Microleafhoppers (Typhlocybinae) » Erythroneurini » Eratoneura » basilaris group (Eratoneura basilaris group) » Eratoneura basilaris

Species Eratoneura basilaris

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

tiny hopper-colorful - Eratoneura basilaris

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 Typhlocybinae (Microleafhoppers)

Tribe Erythroneurini

Genus Eratoneura

No Taxon (basilaris group)

Species basilaris (Eratoneura basilaris)

Explanation of Names

Eratoneura basilaris (Say 1825)

Size

2.8–3.1 mm (1)(2)

Identification

Similar to E. affinis. Basal shading averages darker and browner. Any white patch in the center of the brown area, near the scutellum, is small and tends to shade gradually into the brown. The distal margin of the brown zone is relatively straight(3).

Both species also have a color morph without the dark basal shading. These cannot be distinguished from various other genus members without male dissection(3).

Range

e. US - Map (1)(4)

Food

Host plants: Ulmus americana, U. rubra, U. alata, Ilex decidua. (1)

Remarks

Neotype locality: Male, Kansas, Anderson Co., 26 XI 1927

See Also

E. affinis (Fitch)

- Range: e. US

Det. Solomon V. Hendrix, 2020

Internet References

Species page(2)

Hoppers of North Carolina page(3)

Works Cited

1.	Review of the New World genera of the leafhopper tribe Erythroneurini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae): IV. Eratoneura Dietrich C.H., Dmitriev D.A. 2010. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin 39(3): 79-258.

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

3.	Hoppers of North Carolina

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 29 December, 2007 - 8:51pm
Additional contributions by anitagould, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 19 November, 2024 - 3:59pm

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