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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) » Leafhoppers and Treehoppers (Membracoidea) » Typical Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) » Deltocephalinae » Phlepsiini » Texananus » Subgenus Texananus (Texananus Subgenus Texananus) » Texananus decorus

Species Texananus decorus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited

Cicadellidae, lateral - Texananus decorus

Pennsylvania Leafhopper for ID - Texananus decorus

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 Membracoidea (Leafhoppers and Treehoppers)

Family Cicadellidae (Typical Leafhoppers)

Subfamily Deltocephalinae

Tribe Phlepsiini

Genus Texananus

No Taxon (Subgenus Texananus)

Species decorus (Texananus decorus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Phlepsius decorus Osborn & Ball 1897

Explanation of Names

Texananus decorus (Osborn & Ball 1897)

Size

6 mm(1)

Identification

A rather short, robust species with flaring elytra. Vertex broadly, roundedly angulate, about one-third longer on middle than against the eyes. Color white marked with tawny, a transverse pale band on vertex. Elytral commissural line on clavus with ivory white lobate spots.

Female seventh sternite with lateral margins rounded to posterior margin which is almost truncate; median third broadly, deeply excavated, with a broad, but not rounded, apex at the middle extending two-thirds the distance to the base.

Male plates short and narrow, triangular apices roundedly angled. Aedeagus [external organ of a male, specialized to deliver sperm during copulation] with a long, slender, blade-like ventral process and a rather long, slender, dorsal process with apical third curved dorsally.

Range

throughout the US(2)

Habitat

grassy areas

Works Cited

1.	A review of the New World leafhopper subgenus Texananus (Iowanus) Ball (Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae)... McKamey S. 2000. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 102: 212-224.

2.	Dmitriev D.A. (2003-) 3I interactive keys and taxonomic databases

Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 10 July, 2009 - 11:09pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 29 October, 2013 - 11:14am

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