Species Polana quadrinotata

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited

Gyponinae Leafhopper - Polana quadrinotata

Florida Leafhopper for ID - Polana quadrinotata

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 Iassinae

Tribe Gyponini

Genus Polana

No Taxon (Subgenus Polana)

Species quadrinotata (Polana quadrinotata)

Other Common Names

Four-spotted Leafhopper

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Polana quadrinotata (Spångberg)

Orig. Comb: Gypona quadrinotata Spångberg, 1878

Size

8-8.25mm

Identification

"Robust, brownish species with the vertex broadly rounded to front. Vertex short, broadly rounded, more than three times as wide between eyes at base as median length. Ocelli appearing very close to margin, closer to eyes than to median line of vertex. Brown; a pair of black spots on pronotum close to lateral margin and behind each eye. Basal angles of scutellum brown. Elytra pale brownish; veins darker, usually conspicuous." — DeLong, 1942

Range

mostly se US to NY - Map (1)

Print References

Spångberg, J. (1878) Species Gyponae, generis Homopterum. Bihang Kongl. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. 5 (3): 5-76.

Works Cited

1.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 9 October, 2006 - 8:48pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Graham M, v belov, antarctica
Last updated 27 June, 2023 - 10:38am

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