Skip to main content
World Auchenorrhyncha Database (WAD)
Species

Aphrophora (Plesiommata) parallella (Say, 1824)

spruce spittlebug
Habitus, dorsal view on Aphrophora (Plesiommata) parallella (Say, 1824): (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Aphrophora (Plesiommata) parallella (Say, 1824): (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Aphrophora (Plesiommata) parallella (Say, 1824): (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Aphrophora (Plesiommata) parallella (Say, 1824): (Observation).
Head on Aphrophora (Plesiommata) parallella (Say, 1824): (Observation).
Nymph on Aphrophora (Plesiommata) parallella (Say, 1824): (Observation).
Nymph on Aphrophora (Plesiommata) parallella (Say, 1824): (Observation).
Subgenital plate, ventral view on Aphrophora (Plesiommata) parallella (Say, 1824): (Observation).
Other on Aphrophora (Plesiommata) parallella (Say, 1824): (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (15)

  • Cercopis parallella Say, 1824a: 303.

    Neotype; male; No. 15366; deposited at: Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes (CNC); Canada, Ontario: Black Hawk, NW of Fort Frances, 3 Aug. 1960, Kelton & Whitney

  • Aphrophora parallela [sic] Say, 1824 in Say, 1831b: 305.
  • Aphrophora parrallela [sic] Say, 1824 (misspelling of Cercopis parallella Say, 1824) in McIntyre, 1939a: 880.
  • Aphrophora (Plesiommata) parallella (Say, 1824) in Hamilton, 1982d: 55.

Nomenclature references (11)

  • Say, T. (1824a) Class Insecta. Order Hemiptera. In Appendix to the narrative of an expedition to the source of the St. Peter's River, Lake Winnipeek, Lake of the Woods, &c. & c. Performed in the year 1823, by order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Major Stephen H. Long. U.S.T.E. Vol. 2, pp. 298–303. [459 pp.]
  • Say, T. (1831b) Descriptions of new North American hemipterous insects belonging to the first family of the section Homoptera of Latreille. (Continued). Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 6, 299–314. [1830]
  • Fitch, A. (1851a) Catalogue with references and descriptions of the insects collected and arranged for the State Cabinet of Natural History. Annual Report of the Regents of the University on the Condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History, and the Historical and Antiquarian Collection, 4, 43–69.
  • Walker, F. (1851b) List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. London: Edward Newman, Vol. 3, 637–907.
  • Walker, F. (1852a) Supplement. In List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. London, Edward Newman. Vol. 4, pp. 1119–1188.
  • Fitch, A. (1857a) Fourth report of the noxious and other insects of the State of New york. Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society, 17, 687–753.
  • Osborn, H. (1900e) Remarks on the hemipterous fauna of Ohio with a preliminary record of species. Annual Report of the Ohio State Academy of Science, 8, 60–69.
  • Osborn, H. & Drake, C.J. (1922a) An ecological study of the Hemiptera of the Cranberry Lake Region, New york. Technical Publication of New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University. Syracuse, 16, 5–24.
  • McIntyre, H.L. (1939a) Report on forest pest problems in New york. Jour. For., 37, 879–883.
  • Hamilton, K.G.A. (1982c) Taxonomic changes in Aphrophora (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cercopidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 114(12), 1185–1189.
  • Hamilton, K.G.A. (1982d) Part 10. The spittlebugs of Canada (Homoptera: Cercopidae). In The Insects and Arachnids of Canada. Biosystematics Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Research Branch Agriculture Canada. Vol. 10, Issue 1740, 1–102 pp.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Non Latin: parallel-marked

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species10910