Species Ceresa alta

Classification · Other Common Names · Identification · Remarks · See Also

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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

Species alta (Ceresa alta)

Other Common Names

buffalo treehopper

Identification

Green, with a slight brownish tinge to the pronotal crest. The most broadly triangular species in the genus, with blunt but very widely spreading "horns". [Descriptions based on comments by Andy Hamilton]

Remarks

The common name of "buffalo treehopper" is not specific; different people apply it to different species of Membracidae.

See Also

Longer "horns" that spread more widely than those of C. taurina.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 22 January, 2005 - 2:59am
Additional contributions by anitagould
Last updated 8 September, 2007 - 10:33pm

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