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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) » Typical Spittlebugs (Aphrophoridae) » Aphrophorinae » Philaenini » Neophilaenus » Lined Spittlebug (Neophilaenus lineatus)

Species Neophilaenus lineatus - Lined Spittlebug

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Cercopoidea (Spittlebugs)
Family Aphrophoridae (Typical Spittlebugs)
Subfamily Aphrophorinae
Tribe Philaenini
Genus Neophilaenus
Species lineatus (Lined Spittlebug)
Explanation of Names
Neophilaenus lineatus (Linnaeus 1758)
Size
5-7 mm(1)
Identification
The pale wing edge and the outer anteapical cell smaller than the inner one are diagnostic. Also the tip of the head does not have the pair of black spots characteristic of the meadow spittlebug.
Range
native to, and widespread across the Palaearctic(2), adventive in NA (Canada, ne. US)(3)
Habitat
Moist meadows
Food
Grasses
Remarks
earliest NA record: 1876; common and widespread(3)
Internet References
Species page(1)
Works Cited
1.Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera
2.Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 2. Homoptera and Heteroptera
Lehr, P. A., ed. 1988. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House.
3.Short-horned bugs (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha) introduced to North America
Contributed by tom murray on 4 August, 2005 - 6:21pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 16 February, 2013 - 11:59am

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