Acanalonia conica

(Say, 1830)

Information

Description

BL ♂♀: 7-11 mm. Body bright green, this color fades to yellow in dead specimens. Vertex produced conically. Forewings with whitish veins, apical margin darker; ventral margin of forewings rounded. A description of the nymphal stages can be found in Wilson & McPherson (1981).

Genitalia:

  • See for a detailed description of the male and female genitalia Freund & Wilson (1995).
Ecology

Extremely polyphagous.

Distribution

A Nearctic species, which was first collected in northern Italy in 2003 (D'Urso & Uliana, 2004). Up till now, the species is rapidly spreading through southern Europe: Italy, Switserland (Trivellone et al., 2015), Romania (Chireceanu, Teodoru, Gutue, Dumitru & Anastasiu, 2017), Slovenia (Seljak, 2018), Austria (Holzinger et al., 2020), Serbia (Šćiban & Kosovac, 2020), France (Pelozuelo et al., 2020), Hungary (Kobor et al., 2021), Slovakia (Janský et al., 2021), Bulgaria and Turkey (Gjonov et al., 2023) and the Netherlands (Den Bieman et al., 2024).

References
  • Chireceanu, C., A. Teodoru, M. Gutue, M. Dumitru & P. Anastasiu 2017. Two new invasive hemipteran species first recorded in Romania: Orientus ishidae (Matsumura 1902) (Cicadellidae) and Acanalonia conica (Say 1830) (Acanaloniidae). Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 5(2): 824-830.
  • Den Bieman, C.F.M., De Haas, M.C. & Fens-Bax, T. 2024. Twee exotische cicaden nieuw voor Nederland: Acanalonia conica en Pochazia shantungensis (Fulgoromorpha: Acanaloniidae & Ricaniidae). Nederlandse Faunistische Mededelingen 62: 63-70.
  • D'Urso, V. & M. Uliana 2004. First record of Acanalonia conica (Issidae) in Italy. Third European Hemiptera Congress, Abstracts, St. Petersburg: 26-27.
  • D'Urso, V. & M. Uliana 2006. Acanalonia conica (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Acanaloniidae), a Nearctic species recently introduced in Europe. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Zoologische Reihe 53: 103-107.
  • Freund, R., & S. W. Wilson 1995. The planthopper genus Acanalonia in the United States (Homoptera: Issidae): male and female genitalic morphology. Insecta Mundi 9(3-4): 195-215.
  • Gjonov I., M. Pramatarova, E. Hizal & S. Öztemiz 2023. Acanalonia conica (Hemiptera, Acanaloniidae) – a new exotic species in Bulgaria and Türkiye and its expansion in Europe. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa"Antipa” 66(1): 7-15.
  • Holzinger, W. E., E. Huber, L. Schlosser & G. Kunz 2020. Acanalonia conica (Say, 1830) and three other true hopper species new for Austria (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Cicadina 19: 9-19.
  • Janský V., J. Kollár & M. Barta 2021. Prvé Nálezy Cikádok Acanalonia conica (Say, 1830) a Graphocephala fennahi Young, 1977 (Auchenorrhyncha, Acanaloniidae a Cicadellidae) na Slovensku. Acta Rerum Naturalium Musei Nationalis Slovaci 67: 117–124.
  • Kobor, P., E. Kondorosy, C. Nagy & A. Orosz 2021. Acanalonia conica (Say, 1830): A new alien planthopper species established in Hungary (Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea: Acanaloniidae). Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica 56(2).
  • Pelozuelo, L., T. Bourgoin & P. Reynaud 2020. A new alien species in France: first records of the green cone-headed planthopper Acanalonia conica (Say, 1830) (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Acanaloniidae). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 125(4): 423-426.
  • Say, T., 1830. Descriptions of new north American Hemipterous insects, belonging to the first family of the section Homoptera of Latreille. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6: 235-244. (Description)
  • Seljak, G. 2018. Notable  new findings of Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera) in Slovenia. Acta Entomologica Slovenica 26(2): 181-194.
  • Šćiban, M. & A. Kosovac, 2020. New records and updates on alien Auchenorrhyncha species in Serbia. Pesticidi i Fitomedicina 35(1): 9-17.
  • Trivellone, V., E. Knop, T. Turrini, A. Andrey, J.-Y. Humbert & G. Kunz 2015. New and remarkable leafhoppers and planthoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) from Switzerland. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 88(3-4): 273-284.
  • Wilson, S. W., & J. E. McPherson 1981. Life Histories of Acanalonia bivittata and A. conica with Descriptions of Immature Stages. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 74(3): 289-298.

Images

♀ Imago

Nymph