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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 » Acanaloniid Planthoppers (Acanaloniidae) » Acanalonia » Acanalonia servillei

Species Acanalonia servillei

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
Planthopper Nymph - Acanalonia servillei Flatid Planthopper? - Acanalonia servillei BG2289 E4698 - Acanalonia servillei ? - Acanalonia servillei Acanalonia pumila - Acanalonia servillei Acanaloniid - Acanalonia servillei Hopper - Acanalonia servillei Acanalonia servillei
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 Acanaloniidae (Acanaloniid Planthoppers)
Genus Acanalonia
Species servillei (Acanalonia servillei)
Explanation of Names
Acanalonia servillei Spinola 1839
Size
Length 14-15 mm(1)
Identification
note 3 prominent roughly parallel upward angled veins in forewing, also pale dorsal line

costal border of forewing nearly straight posteriorly(1)
Range
se. US (e.TX-FL-MD, occ. NY) - Map (2)(1)(3)
"mostly a species of the gulf and southern Atlantic coast states, but sometimes gets much further north (it was described from Pennsylvania)" --Charles Bartlett, pers.comm. to =v= 4.vi.15
Food
host: caper (Capparis comosa, Capparaceae)(1), genus restricted to TX & FL, comosa doesn't occur in the US.
Internet References
Genus Page - Univ. Delaware(1)
Works Cited
1.Bartlett C.R. and contributors (2017-) Planthoppers of North America
2.A review of the planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) of the United States
Bartlett C. R., O'Brien L. B. & Wilson S. W. 2014. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 50: 1-287.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 13 June, 2006 - 10:59am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 7 July, 2023 - 12:40pm

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