Glassy-winged sharpshooter

Glassy-winged sharpshooter
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadellidae
Subfamily: Cicadellinae
Tribe: Proconiini
Genus: Homalodisca
Species:
H. vitripennis
Binomial name
Homalodisca vitripennis
(Germar, 1821)
Synonyms [1]
  • Tettigonia vitripennis Germar, 1821
  • Tettigonia coagulata Say, 1832
  • Homalodisca coagulata (Say, 1832)

The glassy-winged sharpshooter (Homalodisca vitripennis, formerly known as H. coagulata) is a large leafhopper (family Cicadellidae), similar to other species of sharpshooter.

  1. ^ Daniela M. Takiya; Stuart H. McKamey; Rodney R. Cavichioli (2006). "Validity of Homalodisca and of H. vitripennis as the name for glassy-winged sharpshooter (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 99 (4): 648–655. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2006)99[648:vohaoh]2.0.co;2.