It was first described by the German entomologist Ernst-Gerhard Burmeister in 1836.

Its pronotum is brown overall, with three white spots, hence the nickname three-spotted treehopper.

[1][2] V. triguttata is found in southern and midwestern United States, southern Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and Guyana.

[3] Due to its unusually large range, it feeds on many types of trees, including:

This Hemiptera article related to members of the insect suborder Auchenorrhyncha is a stub.