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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 · Numbers · Identification · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited
Leafhopper - Gyponana Two leafhopper-like insects - Gyponana Gyponana? - Gyponana Gyponana Unidentified Leafhopper - Gyponana Gyponana geminata hopper - Gyponana octolineata Solid green leafhopper - Gyponana angulata
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
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
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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 30 July, 2016 - 12:48am

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