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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) » Deltocephalinae » Paralimnini » Paralimnina » Arthaldeus » Arthaldeus pascuellus

Species Arthaldeus pascuellus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Internet References · Works Cited

Diplocolenus - Arthaldeus pascuellus - female

Leafhopper - Arthaldeus pascuellus - female

Leafhopper - Arthaldeus pascuellus - male

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 Deltocephalinae

Tribe Paralimnini

Subtribe Paralimnina

Genus Arthaldeus

Species pascuellus (Arthaldeus pascuellus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sorhoanus pascuellus

Explanation of Names

Arthaldeus pascuellus (Fallén 1826)

Size

3-4 mm(1)

Identification

The deeply notched pregenital sternite (the plate covering the base of the ovipositor) is distinctive; also the two little dark spots at the tip of the head (on the upper side).

Range

native to Europe, adventive in NA(2)

Season

Adults present Jun to Nov in the UK(1)

Food

on grasses(3)

Internet References

Species page(4)

Species profile(1)

Works Cited

1.	Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera

2.	Assessment of species diversity in the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone McAlpine D.F., Smith I.M. (eds.). 2010. Canadian Science Publishing (NRC Research Press). 785 pp.

3.	Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. I: Apterygota, Palaeoptera, Hemimetabola Bei-Bienko G.Y., ed. 1964. Leningrad: Zool. Inst. 935 pp.

4.	Zahniser J.N. (2007-) An online interactive key and searchable database of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

Contributed by tom murray on 12 June, 2006 - 4:39pm
Additional contributions by v belov, TurtleDude
Last updated 23 September, 2017 - 4:55pm

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