Glassy-winged sharpshooter

Glassy-winged sharpshooter
Scientific 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 
  • 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.

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