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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
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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 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)
First reported from Florida in 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, antarctica
Last updated 9 January, 2024 - 2:30pm

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