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Aplos

Aplos is a genus of issid planthopper with only one species, Aplos simplex. It can be found in most of the Eastern United States and is now found as an invasive species in Northern Italy and Austria. Aplos simplex was formerly listed under the genus Thionia.

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Aplos
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Family: Issidae
Subfamily: Thioniinae
Tribe: Thioniini
Subtribe: Thioniina
Genus: Aplos
Gnezdilov, 2018
Species:
A. simplex
Binomial name
Aplos simplex
(Germar, 1830)
Synonyms

Thionia simplex (Germar, 1830)

Aplos is a genus of issid planthopper with only one species, Aplos simplex.1234 It can be found in most of the Eastern United States and is now found as an invasive species in Northern Italy and Austria.5 Aplos simplex was formerly listed under the genus Thionia.6

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References

  1. "Aplos simplex (Germar, 1830) | COL". www.catalogueoflife.org. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  2. "Aplos simplex (Germar, 1830)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  3. "Species Aplos simplex". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  4. "Aplos simplex (Germar 1830) - Encyclopedia of Life". eol.org. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  5. Holzinger, Werner; Huber, Elisabeth; Schlosser, Lydia; Kunz, Gernot (12 October 2020). "Acanalonia conica (Say, 1830) and three other true hopper species new for Austria (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)". ResearchGate. p. 12. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  6. Gnezdilov, Vladimir M. (2018-06-14). "To the revision of the genus Thionia Stål (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Issidae), with description of new genera and new subtribe". Zootaxa. 4434 (1): 158–170. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4434.1.10. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 30313206.
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