These treehoppers are true bugs, belonging to the order Hemiptera, which all share a common mouth morphology; sucking mouthparts.

Females detect these vibrational signals with specialized structures on their legs and they also respond through the plant.

Females have saw-like ovipositors that allow them to cut a slit into the plant stem and deposit her eggs.

Larger time gaps between plant phenologies creates more disruption in the gene flow between sympatrically occurring species.

[24] Females tend to stay in their natal plants and prefer to mate and lay their eggs on it, which is called philopatry.

After winter, flow of the plant's sap to their stems is the stimuli the eggs need to start hatching.

After reproducing, females stay on one plant and oviposit their eggs continuously until they expire or until the first frost hits.

Males live shorter than females and usually die shortly after mating a number of times.

[6] The nutritional value of the host plant's sap could delay or boost adult maturation and egg hatching.

This means that species on different host plants have evolved different timing in their life history.

Female choice might actually be the selection pressure that drove the divergence of male signal frequency in the E. binotata species complex.