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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) » Evacanthinae » Nirvanini » Sophonia » Two-spotted Leafhopper (Sophonia orientalis)

Species Sophonia orientalis - Two-spotted Leafhopper

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Unknown small yellow and black winged insect. - Sophonia orientalis

Two-spotted Leafhopper - Sophonia orientalis

Sophonia orientalis - Two-spotted Leafhopper - Sophonia orientalis

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 Evacanthinae

Tribe Nirvanini

Genus Sophonia

Species orientalis (Two-spotted Leafhopper)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sophonia rufofascia (Kuoh & Kuoh)

Explanation of Names

Sophonia orientalis (Matsumura 1912)

Identification

Adults are yellow with a brown stripe down the center of the back and two prominent eye spots on the tail end; its real eyes being concolorous with the body, the bug seems to be moving backwards when walking. (Jones et al.)

Range

native to Asia, adventive in NA (VA‒FL‒TX, CA) ‒map(1)(Dietrich 2011)(2)

Season

adults and nymphs present most of the year (Aguin-Pombo et al. 2007)

Food

polyphagous, attacks >300 plant species in 83 families (Fukada 1996); resident breeding populations recently discovered in ornamental, vegetable, and fruit crops in CA (Duan & Messing)

Remarks

earliest NA record: CA 1996(1); in Hawaii, considered a threat to all native plants (Aguin-Pombo et al. 2007)

Print References

Aguin-Pombo D., Franquinho Aguiar A.M., Kuznetsova V.G. (2007) Bionomics and taxonomy of leafhopper Sophonia orientalis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), a Pacific pest species in the Macaronesian Archipelagos. Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 100: 19‒26 (Abstract)

Fukada M.T. (1996) Distribution, host range, and seasonal abundance of the two spotted leafhopper, Sophonia rufofascia (Kuoh and Kuoh) in Hawaii. M.S. thesis. U. Hawaii.

Internet References

Fact sheet (Jones et al. YYYY)

Works Cited

1.	Short-horned bugs (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha) introduced to North America

2.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 8 July, 2006 - 12:34pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, Graham M, v belov
Last updated 26 August, 2023 - 3:11pm

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