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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) » Aphrodinae » Aphrodini » Aphrodes » Girdled Leafhopper (Aphrodes bicinctus)

Species Aphrodes bicinctus - Girdled Leafhopper

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Remarks · 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 Cicadomorpha (Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers)
Superfamily Membracoidea (Leafhoppers and Treehoppers)
Family Cicadellidae (Typical Leafhoppers)
Subfamily Aphrodinae
Tribe Aphrodini
Genus Aphrodes
Species bicinctus (Girdled Leafhopper)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
dozens of specific/subspecific synonyms
Explanation of Names
Aphrodes bicinctus (Schrank 1776)
Size
6-7 mm
Range
native to, and widespread across the Palaearctic, adventive in NA and now widespread in e. Canada (NF-ON) & BC and adjacent US(1)(2)(3)
Habitat
Grasses
Remarks
earliest NA record: ME 1905(2)
Internet References
BOLD Systems - images of pinned DNA supported specimens (4)
Nature spot UK
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.Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska
Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 3 July, 2006 - 7:06pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robert Lord Zimlich, v belov
Last updated 14 October, 2016 - 8:10am

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