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Genus Euglyptoneura

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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 Sternorrhyncha (Plant-parasitic Hemipterans)
Superfamily Psylloidea
Family Psyllidae
Subfamily Psyllinae
Genus Euglyptoneura
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Includes species formerly treated under Arytaina
Explanation of Names
Euglyptoneura Heslop-Harrison, 1961
Identification
Head more or less horizontal, less wide than thorax; genae parallel to plane of vertex, contiguous as base, bluntly rounded; antennae as long as about 1.5x the width of the head. Thorax broad, robust; wings thickened, opaque, pigmented; pterostigmatic area thickened but true pterostigma and associated costal nodal break is absent (Heslop-Harrison 1961)
Range
western North America (1)
Food
Ceanothus (1)
See Also
Ceanothia & Nyctiphalerus spp. also occur on Ceanothus but may be distinguished by the presence of a true pterostigma
Print References
Heslop-Harrison, G. 1961. The Arytainini of the subfamily Psyllinae, Hemiptera-Homoptera, family Psyllidae. -II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13(3): 417-439.