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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) » Fulgoroidea » Piglet Bugs (Caliscelidae) » Caliscelinae » Peltonotellini » Bruchomorpha » Bruchomorpha rosea

Species Bruchomorpha rosea

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Bruchomorpha rosea Doering - Bruchomorpha rosea Bruchomorpha rosea Doering - Bruchomorpha rosea UDCC_TCN 00012465 - Bruchomorpha rosea - male UDCC_TCN 00012465 - Bruchomorpha rosea - male UDCC_TCN 00012465 - Bruchomorpha rosea - male
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 Fulgoroidea
Family Caliscelidae (Piglet Bugs)
Subfamily Caliscelinae
Tribe Peltonotellini
Genus Bruchomorpha
Species rosea (Bruchomorpha rosea)
Other Common Names
Rosy Piglet Bug
Explanation of Names
Bruchomorpha rosea Doering 1940
Size
Length from tip of head to apex of abdomen 2-3.2 mm, greatest width 1-1.5 mm (Doering 1940)
Identification
easily distinguished by rosy coloring (Doering 1940)
Nasal process not so bulbous, lateral carinae converging at about base of apical seventh or eighth; reddish in color (1)
Range
AZ to c. TX - Map (Doering 1940)(1)(2)
Season
Jun-Aug (Doering 1940)
Food
host: weeping lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula, Poaceae)(1)
See Also
Size and coloring of jocosa Stal, but easily recognized by its long nasal process as opposed to the very short one of jocosa
Print References
Doering K.C. (1940) Part III: A contribution to the taxonomy of the subfamily Issinae in America North of Mexico (Fulgoridae, Homoptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 26: 83-167. (Full text)
Internet References
Genus page(1)
Works Cited
1.Bartlett C.R. and contributors (2017-) Planthoppers of North America
2.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 11 August, 2009 - 1:53pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 21 May, 2021 - 2:08pm

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