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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) » Spittlebugs (Cercopoidea) » Aphrophoridae » Aphrophorinae » Aphrophorini » Aphrophora » Subgenus Aphrophora (Aphrophora Subgenus Aphrophora) » European Alder Spittlebug (Aphrophora alni)

Species Aphrophora alni - European Alder Spittlebug

Representative Images

European Alder Spittlebug - Aphrophora alni Spittlebugs - Aphrophora alni - male - female Big Hopper - Aphrophora alni Plant Hopper - Aphrophora alni Spittlebug - Aphrophora alni Aphrophora sp - Aphrophora alni Cercopidae - Aphrophora alni Aphrophora quadrinotata (?) - Aphrophora alni

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 Cercopoidea (Spittlebugs)
Family Aphrophoridae
Subfamily Aphrophorinae
Tribe Aphrophorini
Genus Aphrophora
No Taxon (Subgenus Aphrophora)
Species alni (European Alder Spittlebug)

Range

native to, and widespread across the Palaearctic, adventive in NA(1)

Food

polyphagous; nymphal hosts include various herbaceous dicots and deciduous tree saplings, adults on various deciduous trees/shrubs(1)

Remarks

earliest NA record: ON 1927(2)

Internet References

species page(3)

Works Cited

1.Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 2. Homoptera and Heteroptera
Lehr, P. A., ed. 1988. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House.
2.Short-horned bugs (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha) introduced to North America
3.Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 3 July, 2006 - 10:00am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 29 August, 2023 - 6:16am

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