Recorded from Ont, N. Y., N. J., Pa., D. C., Va., N. C., Ga~, Fla., Ohio, Wise., Minn., la., Kans., Mo., Ark., Texas, Ariz. (Mexico).
Body green. Front nearly twice as broad as long, not carinated, lateral-edges not sharp and rounded to the clypeus. Front and clypeus rusty-brown in color. Head with the eyes as wide as the pronotum, the vertex very broad and rounded to the front; vertex with two lateral rusty-brown stripes that join the front anteriorly, pass posteriorly over the thorax and are continued along the entire length of the elytral suture. Elytra green, short, nearly semi-circular in shape, rounded off at the sutural corner. Wings milk-white. Beneath and legs brownish-yellow.
Length to tip of elytra 7-71/2 mm.; width 2 mm.
I. F. bivittata. Greenish-yellow; a lateral reddish-brown line confluent on the hemelytra : hemelytra vertical.
Inhabits the United States.
Body pale green : head dusky brownish before: eyes red: antennae and stemmata yellowish-white; seta black : thorax and scutel glabrous, with a broad, lateral, dark reddish-brown vitta : hemelytra vertical, much dilated, pale greenish-yellow, paler towards the costal margin, inner margin dark reddish-brown : wings white : pectus and caudal segment whitish: feet, anterior pairs brownish : venter pale green.
Length three-tenths of an inch.
Found near Engineer Cantonment on the Missouri river; it also occurs in Pennsylvania; it is rather smaller than F. relicta, Fabr. and the hemelytra are more dilated.
Acanalonia bivittata (Say, 1825)
= Flata bivittata Say, 1825: 335.
= Amphiscepa bivittata (Say, 1825); comb. by Melichar 1901a: 183.
= Acanonia bivittata (Say, 1825); comb. by Stål 1862a: 491.
= Acanalonia bivittata (Say, 1825); comb. by Metcalf 1923: 151.
= Amphiscepa bivittata rubescens Melichar, 1901a: 183.
= Acanalonia bivittata var. rubescens (Melichar, 1901a); comb. by Van Duzee 1916a: 81.
= Acanalonia bivittata var. rubescens (Melichar, 1901a); syn. by Bartlett et al. 2014.
Acanalonia bivittata, the two-striped planthopper, is a species of planthopper in the family Acanaloniidae, and the most common and widespread member of the genus Acanalonia.[2][3] Adults of this species are typically green, though occasionally pink. There is a reddish stripe on the inner edge of the wing.[2]
Nymph
Adults - green and rarer pink form
Acanalonia bivittata, the two-striped planthopper, is a species of planthopper in the family Acanaloniidae, and the most common and widespread member of the genus Acanalonia. Adults of this species are typically green, though occasionally pink. There is a reddish stripe on the inner edge of the wing.
Nymph
Adults - green and rarer pink form
