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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 » Clastoptera arizonana

Species Clastoptera arizonana

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited
Cercopid 1 - Clastoptera arizonana Planthopper Nymph - Clastoptera arizonana Clastoptera arizonana? - Clastoptera arizonana Clastoptera arizonana? - Clastoptera arizonana Clastoptera arizonana UDCC_TCN 00012087 - Clastoptera arizonana UDCC_TCN 00012086 - Clastoptera arizonana AMNH_IZC 00316210 - Clastoptera arizonana - female
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
Species arizonana (Clastoptera arizonana)
Explanation of Names
Clastoptera arizonana Doering 1929
Identification
There are only 2 species with 12 pronotal wrinkles across the midline; this one feeds on Acacia and has a dark band across the base of the scutellum. The other (C. lawsoni) feeds on grape and has a pale scutellum. --K.G.A. Hamilton
Range
AZ to w. TX / Mex. - Map (1)
Print References
Doering K.C. (1929) The genus Clastoptera in America North of Mexico. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 18: 5-153.
Works Cited
1.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Brad Barnd on 16 October, 2008 - 4:37pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 22 February, 2022 - 9:58am

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