Family: Cicadellidae
Subfamily: Cicadellinae
Length: males 5.8-7.6 mm; females 7.1-8.3 mm
Adults are active in West Virginia in all but the coldest months. They may be found on a variety of plants, and seem to have a special fondness for Blackberry and Raspberry species. Eggs are laid in leaves.
In this species the red stripes are fairly wide and well-developed.
This bright species has been capturing the attention of naturalists for centuries. The same year as the Boston Massacre, German entomologist Johann Reinhold Forster penned the first description of this American species, and he published it the following year, in 1771.
