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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Free-living Hemipterans (Auchenorrhyncha) » Spittlebugs (Cercopoidea) » Spittlebugs (Aphrophoridae) » Aphrophora

Genus Aphrophora

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited
Four-Spotted Spittlebug - Aphrophora quadrinotata Aphrophora cribrata Spittlebug Nymph - Aphrophora Spittlebug Nymph - Aphrophora Spittlebug - Aphrophora saratogensis Aphrophora Subgenus Plesiommata - Aphrophora saratogensis Aphrophora quadrinotata (?) - Aphrophora alni Aphrophora saratogensis - Saratoga Spittlebug for August - Aphrophora saratogensis
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 Cercopoidea (Spittlebugs)
Family Aphrophoridae (Spittlebugs)
Genus Aphrophora
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Peuceptyelus is treated here as a subgenus
Explanation of Names
Aphrophora Germar 1821
Numbers
19 spp. in several subgenera our area(1), >100 total(2)
Remarks
Spittlebug nymphs wander away from their spittle masses, and either start new ones, or enter those of other nymphs. Aphrophora nymphs hold the record, of one spittle mass over a foot long containing about 100 individuals! (Andy Hamilton)
See Also
Aphrophora dorsal surface is covered with punctations (tiny pits), whereas Philaenus dorsal surface has tiny hairs.
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Soulier-Perkins A. (2007-) Cercopoidea organised on line
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 27 September, 2004 - 8:38pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, urtica, v belov
Last updated 12 September, 2018 - 10:45am

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