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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) » Eurymelinae » Macropsini » Macropsis » subgenus Neomacropsis (Macropsis subgenus Neomacropsis) » Macropsis rufocephalus

Species Macropsis rufocephalus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
leafhopperish - Macropsis rufocephalus - female
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 Eurymelinae
Tribe Macropsini
Genus Macropsis
No Taxon (subgenus Neomacropsis)
Species rufocephalus (Macropsis rufocephalus)
Explanation of Names
Macropsis rufocephala Osborn 1932
Size
Female 5.5 mm
Identification
Yellowish green. Female with vertex, pronotum, anterior two-thirds of scutellum, and half of face reddish brown, Scutellum with black spots in basal angles, apical angle yellowish green. Elytra pale greenish hyaline, veins green. Epimera unmarked. Face appearing concave below vertex as viewed from the side. (Delong, Leafhoppers of Illinois, 1948)
Females are strikingly colored; males are just sort of brownish (comment by Andy Hamilton)
Range
ON-AB(1) south to...
Food
host: Salix exigua(2)
Works Cited
1.Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska
Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.
2.Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands (Volume 1): Ecology and Interactions in Grassland Habitats
Shorthouse, J.D. and K.D. Floate. 2010. 2010. Biological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
Contributed by Ken Wolgemuth on 21 June, 2010 - 8:44am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov, TurtleDude
Last updated 21 October, 2017 - 1:52pm

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