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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) » Spittlebugs (Cercopoidea) » Clastopterid Spittlebugs (Clastopteridae) » Clastoptera » arborina complex (Clastoptera arborina complex) » Mountain-juniper Spittlebug (Clastoptera doeringae)

Species Clastoptera doeringae - Mountain-juniper Spittlebug

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Works Cited
Clastoptera doeringae Hamilton - Clastoptera doeringae Spittlebug - Clastoptera doeringae Bug 4mm, Clastoptera? - Clastoptera doeringae Clastoptera 3.8mm - Clastoptera doeringae Clastoptera doeringae Clastoptera doeringae Clastoptera doeringae Clastoptera doeringae
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 Cercopoidea (Spittlebugs)
Family Clastopteridae (Clastopterid Spittlebugs)
Genus Clastoptera
No Taxon (arborina complex)
Species doeringae (Mountain-juniper Spittlebug)
Explanation of Names
Clastoptera doeringae Hamilton 1978
Size
♂ 3.2-3.9 mm, ♀ 3.5-4.1 mm(1)
Range
w. NA (dry-belt regions of so. BC to AZ)(1)
Food
host: Juniperus scopulorum(1)
Works Cited
1.The Spittlebugs of Canada. Homoptera: Cercopidae
Hamilton, K.G.A. 1982.
Contributed by Claude Pilon on 12 July, 2008 - 1:44pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 28 September, 2013 - 10:13am

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