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A planthopper is any insect in the infraorder Fulgoromorpha, [1] in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, [2] a group exceeding 12,500 described species worldwide. The name comes from their remarkable resemblance to leaves and other plants of their environment and that they often "hop" for quick transportation in a similar way to that of grasshoppers .
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.
Peregrinus maidis, commonly known as the corn planthopper, is a species of insect in the order Hemiptera and the family Delphacidae. [2] It is widespread throughout most tropical and subtropical regions on earth, including southern North America , South America , Africa , Australia , Southeast Asia and China . [ 2 ]
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.
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 ...
The lanternfly is a planthopper, and uses its wings to assist these jumps rather than making sustained flights. [24] The spotted lanternfly will perform a number of "successive collisions" upon jumping, employing both passive and active righting as it falls.
Cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, scale insects, true bugs 251 11 11.4 Isoptera: Termites 76 3.4 Odonata: Dragonflies 54 3 2.4 Diptera: Flies 39 1.8 Ephemeroptera: Mayflies 11 1.7 Plecoptera: Stoneflies 9 0.4 Trichoptera: Caddisflies 8 0.4 Phasmida: Walking Sticks 7 0.3 Megaloptera: Alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies 4 0.2 Psocoptera ...
Shark! is an Intellivision game originally designed by Don Daglow, and with additional design and programming by Ji-Wen Tsao, one of the first female game programmers in the history of video games. The player is a fish who must eat smaller fishes in order to gain points and extra lives while avoiding enemies such as larger fishes, sharks ...