Species Iassus lanio

Classification · Size · Identification · Food · Remarks · Internet References

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 Iassinae

Tribe Iassini

Genus Iassus

Species lanio (Iassus lanio)

Size

Female: 7.7-8.5 mm, male is smaller.

Identification

Forewings vary in color from green to pale brown. Vertex, pronotum and scutellum are heavily dark-mottled. Head as wide as the pronotum.

Food

Feeds on oaks.

Remarks

NEW RECORD FOR NORTH AMERICA for this European genus (Andy Hamilton).

Internet References

British Bugs.

Contributed by v belov on 8 January, 2010 - 9:50am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 8 January, 2010 - 2:59pm

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