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Leafhoppers have piercing-sucking mouthparts, enabling them to feed on plant sap. A leafhoppers' diet commonly consists of sap from a wide and diverse range of plants, but some are more host-specific. Leafhoppers mainly are herbivores, but some are known to eat smaller insects, such as aphids, on occasion.
Xyphon flaviceps (Riley, 1880) c g b (yellow-headed leafhopper); Xyphon fulgidum (Nottingham, 1932) c g; Xyphon gillettei (Ball, 1901) c g; Xyphon nudum (Nottingham, 1932) c g; Xyphon reticulatum Signoret, 1854 c g b (bermudagrass leafhopper)
Many species of froghopper resemble leafhoppers, but can be distinguished by the possession of only a few stout spines on the hind tibiae, where leafhoppers have a series of small spines. Members of the family Machaerotidae greatly resemble treehoppers , due to a large thoracic spine, but the spine in machaerotids is an enlargement of the ...
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 ...
Draeculacephala is a genus of leafhoppers. It is one of the most common and widespread genera of leafhoppers in the New World.
Deltocephalinae is a subfamily of leafhoppers. Deltocephalinae is the largest subfamily in the family Cicadellidae and is divided into 40 tribes, comprising over 925 genera, and over 6,700 described species. [1] [2]
Pediopsoides is a genus of leafhoppers in the family Cicadellidae. [1] Species. There are 31 recognised species place in four subgenera. [2]
Acinopterus is a genus of leafhoppers in the family Cicadellidae. There are more than 30 described species in Acinopterus. [1] The members of Acinopterus are widely distributed across North and South America. Acinopterus is the type genus of the tribe Acinopterini. [2]