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Genus Lepyronia

Representative Images

ID Help? Type of hopper? - Lepyronia quadrangularis strange brown hopper - Lepyronia quadrangularis spittlebug? - Lepyronia quadrangularis Lepyronia quadrangularis? - Lepyronia quadrangularis Spittlebug IMG_2603 - Lepyronia quadrangularis spittlebug - Lepyronia quadrangularis Spittlebug? - Lepyronia angulifera Diamondback Spittlebug - Lepyronia quadrangularis

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
Subfamily Aphrophorinae
Tribe Cloviini
Genus Lepyronia

Explanation of Names

Lepyronia Amyot & Serville 1843

Numbers

4 spp. in our area(1), 16 total(2)

Works Cited

1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Soulier-Perkins A. (2007-) Cercopoidea organised on line
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by v belov, antarctica
Last updated 13 November, 2021 - 12:13pm

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