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Species Empoa gillettei

Leafhopper - Empoa gillettei white leafhopper - Empoa gillettei Typhlocyba gillettei? - Empoa gillettei Typhlocyba sp.? - Empoa gillettei Leafhopper - striped on black - Empoa gillettei Empoa gillettei? - Empoa gillettei Empoa - Empoa gillettei Pennsylvania Leafhopper - Empoa gillettei
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 Typhlocybinae (Microleafhoppers)
Tribe Typhlocybini
Genus Empoa
No Taxon (Subgenus Empoa)
Species gillettei (Empoa gillettei)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Typhlocyba gillettei Van Duzee 1917
Explanation of Names
Empoa gillettei (Van Duzee 1917)
Range
most of NA (NF-AK to NC-LA-AZ) - Map (1)(2), mostly e. NA to AK
Food
recorded hosts include deciduous trees in 6 families(1)
See Also
E. venusta - wing tips darker than in E. gillettei
- Range: ne. N. Amer.
Print References
Van Duzee, E.P. (1917) Catalogue of the Hemiptera of America north of Mexico excepting the Aphididae, Coccidae and Aleurodidae. Technical Bulletin. University of California, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station. Entomology. Berkeley, 2: 1–902.