Aplos

{{Short description|Genus of plantopper}}

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| image = "Mr. Grumpy" Planthopper - Aplos simplex, Woodbridge, Virginia.jpg

| display_parents=4

| genus=Aplos

| parent_authority=Gnezdilov, 2018

| species=simplex

| authority=(Germar, 1830)

| synonyms= Thionia simplex (Germar, 1830)

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Aplos is a genus of issid planthopper with only one species, Aplos simplex.{{Cite web |title=Aplos simplex (Germar, 1830) {{!}} COL |url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/FPNN |access-date=2023-08-25 |website=www.catalogueoflife.org}}{{Cite web |title=Aplos simplex (Germar, 1830) |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/9683088 |access-date=2023-08-25 |website=www.gbif.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Species Aplos simplex |url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/61875 |access-date=2023-08-25 |website=bugguide.net}}{{Cite web |title=Aplos simplex (Germar 1830) - Encyclopedia of Life |url=https://eol.org/pages/52759543 |access-date=2023-08-25 |website=eol.org}} It can be found in most of the Eastern United States and is now found as an invasive species in Northern Italy and Austria.{{Cite web |last=Holzinger |first=Werner |last2=Huber |first2=Elisabeth |last3=Schlosser |first3=Lydia |last4=Kunz |first4=Gernot |date=12 October 2020 |title=Acanalonia conica (Say, 1830) and three other true hopper species new for Austria (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344614560_Acanalonia_conica_Say_1830_and_three_other_true_hopper_species_new_for_Austria_Hemiptera_Auchenorrhyncha#pf4 |access-date=5 January 2024 |website=ResearchGate |page=12}} Aplos simplex was formerly listed under the genus Thionia.{{Cite journal |last=Gnezdilov |first=Vladimir M. |date=2018-06-14 |title=To the revision of the genus Thionia Stål (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Issidae), with description of new genera and new subtribe |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30313206 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4434 |issue=1 |pages=158–170 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4434.1.10 |issn=1175-5334 |pmid=30313206}}

File:Planthopper nymph - Aplos simplex, Woodbridge, Virginia.jpg

File:Planthopper Aplos simplex, Woodbridge, Virginia.jpg

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Further reading

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  • {{Cite web

| access-date = 2018-04-11

| last1 = Bartlett | first1 = C.R.

| date = 2012

| title = Planthoppers of North America

| url = http://canr.udel.edu/planthoppers/

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  • {{Cite journal

| last1 = Fennah | first1 = R.G.

| date = 1969

| title = Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands

| journal = Pacific Insects Monographs

| volume = 21

| issue = 3

| pages = 1–116

| doi = 10.1093/besa/15.3.259b

| doi-access = free

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  • {{Cite journal

| last1 = Urban | first1 = Julie M.

| last2 = Cryan | first2 = Jason R.

| date = 2007

| title = Evolution of the planthoppers (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea)

| journal = Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

| volume = 42

| issue = 2

| pages = 556–572

| issn = 1055-7903

| doi = 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.08.009

| pmid = 17011797

}}

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Category:Issidae

Category:Monotypic Hemiptera genera

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