Stictocephala
Appearance
Stictocephala | |
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Stictocephala taurina | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
Infraorder: | Cicadomorpha |
Superfamily: | Membracoidea |
Family: | Membracidae |
Subfamily: | Smiliinae |
Genus: | Stictocephala Stål, 1869 |
![Two-horned Treehopper (Stictocephala diceros)](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Two-horned_Treehopper_%28Stictocephala_diceros%29.jpg/220px-Two-horned_Treehopper_%28Stictocephala_diceros%29.jpg)
![Tree hopper nymph Stictocephala spp.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Tree_hopper_nymph_Stictocephala_spp..jpg/220px-Tree_hopper_nymph_Stictocephala_spp..jpg)
Stictocephala[1] is a genus of treehoppers in the family Membracidae;[1] in the subfamily Smiliinae and tribe Ceresini.[2] Species appear to be distributed mostly in North America, but S. bisonia has become widely distributed in Europe.
Species
[edit]The Catalogue of Life[1] lists:
- Stictocephala albescens
- Stictocephala alta[3]
- Stictocephala basalis
- Stictocephala bisonia
- Stictocephala brevicornis
- Stictocephala brevis
- Stictocephala brevitylus
- Stictocephala diceros
- Stictocephala diminuta
- Stictocephala lutea
- Stictocephala militaris
- Stictocephala nervosa
- Stictocephala ornithisca
- Stictocephala palmeri
- Stictocephala stimulea
- Stictocephala substriata
- Stictocephala taurina
- Stictocephala tauriniformis
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2011). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
- ^ Bugguide.net: Stictocephala (retrieved 20 October 2018)
- ^ Deitz, Lewis Levering; Wallace, Matthew S. (2012). "Richness of the Nearctic Treehopper Fauna (Hemiptera: Aetalionidae and Membracidae)". Zootaxa. 3423: 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3423.1.1.
External links
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