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Leafhopper is the common name for any species from the family Cicadellidae. These minute insects , colloquially known as hoppers , are plant feeders that suck plant sap from grass, shrubs, or trees.
Common names include candy-striped leafhopper, red-banded leafhopper, scarlet-and-green leafhopper and red-and-blue leafhopper. Adults measure 6.7–8.4 mm in length and have vivid blue (or green) and red (or orange-red) stripes on their wings and the top of their thorax combined with bright yellow coloration on their head, legs, abdomen , and ...
Erythroneura infuscata, commonly known as Leafhopper, [1] is a species of leafhopper in the family Cicadellidae. [2] [3] [4] [5]A dark, mostly black species that is distinctive in appearance from most other members of the family Typhlocybinae.
Graphocephala fennahi (rhododendron leafhopper) is a species of leafhopper native to the United States. Its common name derives from it feeding on the sap of rhododendrons . [ 1 ] The species was introduced to Great Britain in the 1930s and continental Europe in the 1970s. [ 2 ]
Graminella nigrifrons, the black-faced leafhopper, ... American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press.
Hemiptera (/ h ɛ ˈ m ɪ p t ər ə /; from Ancient Greek hemipterus 'half-winged') is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs.
Adult leafhoppers can mostly be encountered from April through July feeding on sap of deciduous trees, especially poplars (Populus species) and oaks (Quercus species). Although fit to fly, they sometimes prefer to jump away when disturbed. They may have just one generation per year and the larva overwinters.
Beet leafhoppers are polyphagous generalists which means that they are able to feed on various different types of host (biology) plants. [2] The fact that these insects migrate during the spring and summer time to cultivated fields also means that they show a lot of variation in their host plant choices by season: feeding on desert weeds in the winter and feeding on cultivated fields in the ...