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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Free-living Hemipterans (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadas, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers (Cicadoidea) » Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) » Iassinae » Gyponini » Gyponana

Genus Gyponana

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited
Gyponana geminata Life Cycle of Gyponana - Day 34 - Gyponana Where am I? Who am I? - Gyponana Gyponana hopper - Gyponana octolineata Leafhopper - Gyponana tubera - male large green hopper - Gyponana Leafhopper - Gyponana Leafhopper type? - Gyponana
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Free-living Hemipterans)
Superfamily Cicadoidea (Cicadas, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers)
Family Cicadellidae (Leafhoppers)
Subfamily Iassinae
Tribe Gyponini
Genus Gyponana
Explanation of Names
Gyponana Ball 1920
Numbers
~50 spp. in our area(1)
Identification
Most of the fauna reviewed in(2). Nymphs have very strongly flattened head marked with faint orange stripes, and tremendously long antennae.
Life Cycle
Click to view the life cycle:
Remarks
Very few species are readily identifiable based on external characters
See Also
Ponana and Gypona nymphs are very similar but have dark markings
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Review of the Nearctic species of the nominate subgenus of Gyponana Ball (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae)
Hamilton K.G.A. 1982. J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 55: 547-562.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 27 September, 2004 - 8:26pm
Additional contributions by anitagould, Mike Quinn, Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 16 July, 2019 - 7:49pm

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