- six-spotted leafhopper
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: a leafhopper (Macrosteles fascifrons) that feeds on various crop plants and transmits several virus diseases of plants
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
six-spotted leafhopper
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homopteran — /heuh mop teuhr euhn, hoh /, adj. 1. homopterous. n. 2. a homopterous insect. [1835 45; see HOMOPTEROUS, AN] * * * ▪ insect order Introduction any of more than 32,000 species of sucking insects, the members of which exhibit considerable… … Universalium
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