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Species Typhlocyba quercus

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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 Auchenorrhyncha (True Hoppers)
Infraorder Cicadomorpha (Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers)
Superfamily Membracoidea (Leafhoppers and Treehoppers)
Family Cicadellidae (Typical Leafhoppers)
Subfamily Typhlocybinae (Microleafhoppers)
Tribe Typhlocybini
Genus Typhlocyba
Species quercus (Typhlocyba quercus)
Explanation of Names
Typhlocyba quercus (Fabricius 1777)
Size
3-3.5 mm(1)
Range
native to, and widespread across the Palaearctic, adventive in NA (ne. NA + BC-CA)(2)(3)
Food
in the UK, on oaks, hornbeams, plum, sloe, birch, and other trees(1)
Remarks
earliest NA record: BC 1946(2)
Internet References
Species pages: Dmitriev (2003-)(3) | Bantock & Botting (2010)(1)
Works Cited
1.Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera
2.Short-horned bugs (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha) introduced to North America
3.Dmitriev D.A. (2003-) 3I interactive keys and taxonomic databases
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 8 July, 2008 - 1:49pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 8 October, 2013 - 5:25pm

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