Hoppers of North Carolina

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

Family (Alpha):

CICADELLIDAE Members:	NC Records
Kyboasca pergandei - No Common Name

Taxonomy

Family: CICADELLIDAE

Subfamily: Typhlocybinae

Tribe: Empoascini

Synonym: (Gillette, 1898)

Identification

Online Photographs: BugGuide, GBIF iNaturalist
Description: A greenish to yellowish-green species, with males yellower than females. There is a large, prominent black spot before the crossvein of the inner apical cell on each wing. The vertex is broadly rounded and slightly produced beyond the anterior margins of the eyes; it almost twice as wide between the eyes as the length at the middle, and is parallel-margined. The pronotum is wider and more than twice as long as the head. The female pregenital sternite has the posterior margin convexly rounded and narrowing towards the center, with a U-shaped notch in the middle extending about a quarter of the way to the base; there are two rounded lobes on either side of the sternite. The male plates are six times as long as the width at the base with the tips tapered and upturned. The male aedeagus is simple, the styles are slightly curved and gradually tapered, and the lateral processes of the pygofers are curved inwards near the apices. Adults are around 3.5-3.75 mm long. (DeLong, 1931)

Distribution in North Carolina

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Distribution: Essentially transcontinental, with a majority of the records coming from the East (especially Northeast), central United States, and Interior West (3I). Previously unknown from North Carolina, but recorded just across the state border in the mountains of Tennessee as well as in nearby Georgia and Virginia.

Abundance: Uncommon to rare, recently reported from three counties in the mountains, likely more abundant in the right habitat.

Seasonal Occurrence

Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Habitats and Life History

Habitats: Open woodlands, forest edge

Plant Associates: Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), but also reported from Gleditsia sp. in numbers. (3I)

Behavior: Can be attracted at night with a light.

Comment: This species superficially resembles Kyboasca papyriferae, a northern species recorded as far south as New Hampshire (previously only known from Ontario and Cape Breton Island) that has been collected from paper birch, white ash, and sugar maple (Chandler and Hamilton, 2017). This species likely does not occur this far south, and coloration of the females is different (uniformly vivid green for papyriferae, greenish with a pale bluish-grey clavus for pergandei, per the specimen on here; head and pronotal coloration also differs).

Status: Native

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Species Photo Gallery for Kyboasca pergandei No Common Name
	Photo by: Rob Van Epps Watauga Co. Comment: Attracted to porch light. Wooded neighborhood at high elevation.	Photo by: Rob Van Epps Watauga Co. Comment: Attracted to porch light. Wooded neighborhood at high elevation.
	Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper	Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper
	Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper	Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: I believe this to be the nymph of Kyboasca pergandei because I saw it at the same time on the same branch of Black Locust as the three adults I saw on 7/6/23. - unid_leafhopper
	Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper	Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper
	Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper	Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper
	Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn Transylvania Co. Comment: male
	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn Transylvania Co. Comment: male	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn Transylvania Co. Comment: male
	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn Transylvania Co. Comment: male	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn Polk Co. Comment: 1 male (3.5 mm), 1 female (3.5 mm) collected
	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn Polk Co. Comment: 1 male (3.5 mm), 1 female (3.5 mm) collected	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn Polk Co. Comment: 1 male (3.5 mm), 1 female (3.5 mm) collected
	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn Polk Co. Comment: 1 male (3.5 mm), 1 female ( mm) collected	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn Polk Co. Comment: 1 male (3.5 mm), 1 female (3.5 mm) collected
	Photo by: Kyle Kittelberger, Brian Bockhahn Polk Co. Comment: 1 male (3.5 mm), 1 female (3.5 mm) collected	Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper
	Photo by: Ted Wilcox Watauga Co. Comment: unid_leafhopper

Kyboasca pergandei - No Common Name

Species Photo Gallery for Kyboasca pergandei No Common Name