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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Free-living Hemipterans (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadoidea » Treehoppers (Membracidae) » Ceresa

Genus Ceresa

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers
Treehopper - Ceresa alta Treehopper - Ceresa tauriniformis Species? - Ceresa taurina Hopper nymph - Ceresa albescens Buffalo treehopper, Ceresa sp. - Ceresa Treehopper - Ceresa alta two-fer - Ceresa palmeri Ceresa alta? perhaps? - Ceresa alta
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Free-living Hemipterans)
Superfamily Cicadoidea
Family Membracidae (Treehoppers)
Genus Ceresa
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
formerly Stictocephala (in part)
Numbers
Nearctica.com lists only 4 species in North America but a number of other species from Stictocephala and other genera have now been assigned to Ceresa
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 22 January, 2005 - 2:27am
Last updated 7 June, 2006 - 6:22pm

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