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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoromorpha) » Fulgoroidea » Tropiduchid Planthoppers (Tropiduchidae) » Elicinae » Elicini » Dictyonissus » Dictyonissus griphus

Species Dictyonissus griphus

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Fulgoromorpha (Planthoppers)
Superfamily Fulgoroidea
Family Tropiduchidae (Tropiduchid Planthoppers)
Subfamily Elicinae
Tribe Elicini
Genus Dictyonissus
Species griphus (Dictyonissus griphus)
Other Common Names
Intricate Planthopper
Explanation of Names
Dictyonissus griphus Uhler 1876
griphus (Gr.) 'fishing-basket/anything intricate'
Numbers
2 spp. n. of Mex. (1)
Identification
There are only two species in the genus. They resemble each other closely in color, size and general features.
They are easily distinguished by the presence of pitch-black hairs on body and tegmina in nigropilosus, together with the angulate vertex and the very narrow frons without any black markings.
D. griphus has golden or light hairs, the anterior margin of vertex distinctly rounding and more produced beyond eyes and a broader frons with a row of black spots indicated in each lateral disk. (2)
Range
CA, TX / ne. Mex. (Tamps, NL) - Map (3)(4), mostly sw. TX to Brazos R. southward
Season
May-Nov (5), (BG data)
Food
none reported(3)
Print References
Uhler, P.R. 1889. New genera and species of American Homoptera. Transactions of the Maryland Academy of Sciences 1: 33-44.
Internet References
Genus Page - Univ. Delaware(3)
Works Cited
1.Dmitriev D.A. (2003-) 3I interactive keys and taxonomic databases
2.Contribution to the Taxonomy of the Subfamily Issinae in America North of Mexico
Kathleen C. Doering. 1938. University of Kansas Science Bulletin, v.25, No. 20, p.447.
3.Bartlett C.R. and contributors (2017-) Planthoppers of North America
4.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
5.A preliminary catalogue of the described Species of the family Fulgoridae of North America, north of Mexico
Swezey, O.H. 1904. Ohio Dept. Agriculture. 48 pp. 1904. Ohio Dept. Agriculture.
Contributed by v belov on 7 July, 2011 - 7:20am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 4 March, 2024 - 3:07pm

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