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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) » Deltocephalinae » Athysanini » incertae sedis » Fitchana » Fitchana vitellina

Species Fitchana vitellina

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · Internet References
leafhopper - Fitchana vitellina Cicadellidae - Platymetopius vitellinus - Fitchana vitellina Cicadellidae - Fitchana vitellina cicadellid - Fitchana vitellina Fitchana vitellina - female Fitchana vitellina? - Fitchana vitellina Fitchana vitellina Leafhopper - Fitchana vitellina
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 Deltocephalinae
Tribe Athysanini
No Taxon (incertae sedis)
Genus Fitchana
Species vitellina (Fitchana vitellina)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Platymetopius vitellinus
described in 1851 by Fitch, who originally placed it in genus Acocephalus
Numbers
uncommon to rare in Minnesota
Identification
head yellow, moderately pointed, with greenish eyes in live individuals; scutellum yellow centrally, brown laterally; forewing light brown with numerous clear spots; dark oblique band at base, and another near middle of wing (each band forms a V shape in dorsal view of insect at rest); legs yellowish, darker at joints
Range
northeastern United States and southeastern Canada
Habitat
old mesic fields
Season
June through August
Remarks
page creation based on Andy Hamilton's identification of this image
Internet References
Hoppers of North Carolina
classification of Fitchana in subfamily Deltocephalinae (The Taxonomicon, Netherlands)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 28 February, 2007 - 12:23pm
Additional contributions by marcie oconnor, TurtleDude
Last updated 19 December, 2023 - 4:17pm

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