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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Free-living Hemipterans (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadas, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers (Cicadoidea) » Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) » Sharpshooters (Cicadellinae) » Cicadellini » Graphocephala » Subgenus Graphocephala (Graphocephala Subgenus Graphocephala) » Red-banded Leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea)

Species Graphocephala coccinea - Red-banded Leafhopper

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

red banded leafhopper? - Graphocephala coccinea

Which hopper, please? - Graphocephala coccinea

SCARLET AND GREEN LEAFHOPPER - Graphocephala coccinea

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Free-living Hemipterans)

Superfamily Cicadoidea (Cicadas, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers)

Family Cicadellidae (Leafhoppers)

Subfamily Cicadellinae (Sharpshooters)

Tribe Cicadellini

Genus Graphocephala

No Taxon (Subgenus Graphocephala)

Species coccinea (Red-banded Leafhopper)

Other Common Names

Candystriped Leafhopper

Explanation of Names

Graphocephala coccinea (Forster 1771)

Cicada coccinea Forster, 1771

Synonym:

Tettigonia quadrivittata Say, 1830

Size

G. c. coccinea (confined to the Atlantic coast): ♂♂ 5.7-6.2 mm, ♀♀ 6.7-7.3 mm

G. c. quadrivittata (inland): ♂♂ 6.6-7.6 mm, ♀♀ 7.2-8.4 mm

Range

Canada (QC-SK) to Panama(1)(2)

See Also

G. teliformis

G. picta and G. fennahi are more green than red (at most, equally marked green and red) whereas G. coccinea is usually dominantly red.

G. constricta, known only from AR, w. MS & e. TX, is similar to G. coccinea but is smaller (6.2-7.4 mm). [from Andy Hamilton's comments]

Graphocephala constricta

Print References

Hamilton K.G.A. (1985) The Graphocephala coccinea Complex in North America (Homoptera, Auchenorryncha, Cicadellidae). Entomologische Abhandlungen 49(6): 105-11.

Internet References

Species page(3)

Works Cited

1.	Wilson M.R., Turner J.A., McKamey S.H. (2009) Sharpshooter leafhoppers of the world (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae)

2.	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.

3.	Nearctic Insecta other (Discover Life's IDnature guide)

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod, Mike Quinn, Nick Block, ceiseman, Robert Lord Zimlich, v belov
Last updated 30 July, 2018 - 10:23am

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