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Species Edwardsiana prunicola - Prune Leafhopper

Pair - Edwardsiana prunicola - male - female Pair - Edwardsiana prunicola - male - 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 Typhlocybinae (Microleafhoppers)
Tribe Typhlocybini
Genus Edwardsiana
Species prunicola (Prune Leafhopper)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
=Typhlocyba prunicola
Explanation of Names
Edwardsiana prunicola (Edwards 1914)
Range
native to, and widespread across the w. Palaearctic (Europe to C. Asia), adventive in NA (BC-CA-UT)(1)(2)
Food
hosts: various Rosaceae, also Ribes, Salix, Viburnum(2)
Remarks
earliest NA record: NY 1900 (prob. died out in the east); earliest w. NA record: ID/WA 1930(1)