Solanaceous treehopper
Antianthe expansa
The solanaceous treehopper is a small treehopper. Treehoppers are little jumping bugs that sit on plant stems and look a bit like thorns or bumps. This one is also called the keeled tree hopper.
Lives in
The Americas, on plants
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot sting or bite people.
What does it eat?
Like all treehoppers, it drinks plant sap through a mouth shaped like a tiny straw.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Solanaceous treehopper about 1 km/h (0.62 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It belongs to the treehoppers, a family of bugs famous for their strange shapes.
2
Scientists split it into two subspecies.
3
A treehopper can jump away very fast when something comes too close.
you asked
Most asked questions about Solanaceous treehopper
?Is the solanaceous treehopper dangerous?
No. It is a small plant bug and harmless to people.
?What does a treehopper eat?
It drinks sap from plants with its straw-like mouth.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Antianthe expansa
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Membracidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Membracidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Keeled tree hopper
Where the facts come from
- Antianthe expansa (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by (c) Kai Squires, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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