Hoppers of North Carolina

Hoppers of North Carolina:
Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, Treehoppers, and Planthoppers

Family (Alpha):

DELPHACIDAE Members:	NC Records
Javesella pellucida - No Common Name

Taxonomy

Family: DELPHACIDAE	Subfamily: Delphacinae
Taxonomic Author: (Fabricius, 1794)

Identification

Online Photographs: BugGuide, GBIF iNaturalist
Description: A brown species that tends to be quite variable in color. Both brachypterous and macropterous forms occur, though it seems that the latter is more common. Males are much darker than females, ranging closer to black. Some males have a black thorax with a white ring around the base, similar to Delphacodes puella but lacking the black spot on the wings. Males can have very black faces with pale carinae. Note in males the strongly decurved aedeagus, characteristic of this species. Females are light brown overall with a dark frons and pale ridges on the thorax.

Distribution in North Carolina

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Distribution: Widespread and common: holarctic. In the New World, reported from Alaska, throughout Canada, and widespread in the United States, especially the northern states; also reported from Cuba and Puerto Rico. In the Palearctic, found from northern Europe to Northern Africa east to Mongolia and Japan. (UDEL)

Abundance: Scattered records across the Piedmont and Coastal Plain where it is uncommon; this species should be found though in the mountains.

Seasonal Occurrence

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Habitats and Life History

Habitats: Has been found in grassy, brushy areas and forest edge.

Plant Associates: Polyphagous, mostly grasses (Festuca, Elymus, Dactylis, Poa, Deschampsia, Agrostis, Lolium, Calamagrostis, Phleum, and others); less commonly on sedges, rushes, and horsetails. (UDEL)

Behavior: Can be attracted at night with a light.

Comment: J. pellucida is economically important for barley, maize, oats, tall oat-grass, and wheat; it is a vector of Oat sterile dwarf virus (OSDV) and European wheat striate mosaic virus (EWSMV), as well as Maize rough dwarf virus (MRDV). (UDEL)

Status: Native

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Species Photo Gallery for Javesella pellucida No Common Name
	Photo by: Rob Van Epps Mecklenburg Co. Comment: Attracted to porch light. Suburban yard near woods.	Photo by: Rob Van Epps Mecklenburg Co. Comment: Attracted to porch light. Suburban yard near woods.
	Photo by: Margarita Lankford Orange Co. Comment: crabgrass lawn	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn, Paul Scharf Vance Co. Comment: Field/forest edge habitat
	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn, Paul Scharf Surry Co. Comment: grassy, brushy habitat near forest edge & forest; males	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn, Paul Scharf Surry Co. Comment: grassy, brushy habitat near forest edge & forest; males
	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn, Paul Scharf Surry Co. Comment: grassy, brushy habitat near forest edge & forest; males	Photo by: Paul Scharf Warren Co. Comment: Attracted to Black Light. Above 45 degrees
	Photo by: Paul Scharf Warren Co. Comment: Attracted To Black Light	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn, Paul Scharf Vance Co. Comment: Caught Sweeping
	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn, Paul Scharf Vance Co. Comment: Caught Sweeping	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn, Paul Scharf Vance Co. Comment: Field/forest edge habitat
	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn, Paul Scharf Vance Co. Comment: Field/forest edge habitat

Javesella pellucida - No Common Name

Species Photo Gallery for Javesella pellucida No Common Name