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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoromorpha) » Delphacoidea » Delphacid Planthoppers (Delphacidae) » Delphacinae » Delphacini » Pissonotus

Genus Pissonotus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Pissonotus flabellatus Planthopper in web - Pissonotus brunneus Vashon BioBlitz 2014 - Could this be Pissonotus melanurus? - Pissonotus delicatus Pissonotus guttatus Pissonotus marginatus Pissonotus aphidioides - female Pissonotus flabellatus Pissonotus brunneus
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 Fulgoromorpha (Planthoppers)
Superfamily Delphacoidea
Family Delphacidae (Delphacid Planthoppers)
Subfamily Delphacinae
Tribe Delphacini
Genus Pissonotus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Phyllodictus Ball 1926
Explanation of Names
Pissonotus Van Duzee 1897
'pitch-colored back'
Numbers
35 spp. in our area, 43 total(1)
Range
New World, mostly nearctic(1)
Food
Most species with confirmed hosts are recorded from plants in the Asteraceae with the exception of Pissonotus piceus on Polygonaceae
Remarks
Brachypterous adults (1 & 2) are more common than macropterous (full-winged) ones (3)

Nymphs
Print References
Bartlett, C.R. and L.L. Deitz. 2000. Revision of the New World delphacid planthopper genus Pissonotus (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea). Thomas Say Publications in Entomology: Monographs. Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland. vi + 234 pp.
Internet References
Genus page - Univ. Delaware(1)
Works Cited
1.Bartlett C.R. and contributors (2017-) Planthoppers of North America
Contributed by tom murray on 30 June, 2005 - 7:20pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 20 March, 2024 - 9:07pm

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