Species Marganana suilla

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Arizona Leafhopper for ID - Marganana suilla

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 Iassinae

Tribe Gyponini

Genus Marganana

Species suilla (Marganana suilla)

Explanation of Names

Marganana suilla (Ball, 1935)

Size

8mm

Identification

"A broad, robust, brown species with black spots on pronotum. Vertex short and broadly rounded, decidedly more than twice as wide between eyes at base as median length. Brown tinged with orange, a round black spot on each side of pronotum behind eye, and anterior half often mottled with darker brown." — DeLong, 1942

Range

AZ(1)

Works Cited

1.	Dmitriev D.A. (2003-) 3I interactive keys and taxonomic databases

Contributed by v belov on 14 March, 2012 - 3:48pm
Additional contributions by antarctica
Last updated 25 November, 2020 - 4:17pm

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