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Species Hamana gelbata

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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 Gyponini
Genus Hamana
Species gelbata (Hamana gelbata)
Explanation of Names
Hamana gelbata (DeLong, 1942)
Size
♂ 9mm, ♀ 9.5mm
Identification
"In general appearance resembling incita, but with crown almost parallel margined and with a broad yellow marginal band on forewings. Crown less than one-half as long at middle as median width between the eyes, anterior margin foliaceous and slightly upturned. Pale brown marked with dark brown and yellow. Crown rather dark brown with a round black spot on base just back of each ocellus. Anterior margin of pronotum marked with a row of heavy brown spots, posterior portion with numerous punctate brown spots. Pronotum brown. Forewings whitish, veins broadly brown. Cells with dark brown spots. Anterior two-thirds of costal margin broadly white to yellow, veins green." — DeLong & Freytag, 1966
Range
AZ; Mexico