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Species Acanalonia servillei

Acanaloniid Planthopper nymph - Acanalonia servillei

planthopper nymph (Acanalonia servillei) - Acanalonia servillei

Acanolonia servillei ? - Acanalonia servillei

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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