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Genus Hymetta

Pink and tan leafhopper - Hymetta anthisma Splotched white leafhopper - Hymetta anthisma Hymetta anthisma or balteata? (1) - Hymetta balteata Hymetta anthisma or balteata? (3) - Hymetta balteata Hymetta balteata - female Hymetta sp? - Hymetta anthisma Hymetta - Hymetta balteata - female Cicadellidae - Hymetta anthisma
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 Hymetta
Explanation of Names
Hymetta McAtee 1919
Numbers
5 spp., all in our area(1)
Identification
key to spp.(1)
Range
e. half of the US + 1 sp. in NM-AZ(1)
Print References
Fairbairn, V.M. (1928) The genus Hymetta (Homoptera, Cicadellidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 1: 84–92.
Works Cited
1.Dmitriev D.A. (2003‒) 3I interactive keys and taxonomic databases
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 24 May, 2005 - 5:05pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 9 July, 2023 - 1:34pm

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