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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoromorpha) » Fulgoroidea » Derbid Planthoppers (Derbidae) » Breddiniolinae » Cedusa

Genus Cedusa

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Hopper nymph - Cedusa blue planthopper - Cedusa planthopper - Cedusa maculata Cedusa Cedusa - Cedusa vulgaris - male Cedusa leafhopper - Cedusa Cedusa - Cedusa vulgaris - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (True Hoppers)
Infraorder Fulgoromorpha (Planthoppers)
Superfamily Fulgoroidea
Family Derbidae (Derbid Planthoppers)
Subfamily Breddiniolinae
Genus Cedusa
Explanation of Names
Cedusa Fowler 1904
Numbers
33 spp. in our area, ~180 total(1)
Identification
see (2)(3)
nymphs
Range
e NA to Calif. to Argentina(1)
Food
Nymphs feed on fungi in leaf litter. So far, this has been studied only in Florida on palm branch litter, but obviously this would also apply where cottonwoods produce so much litter. In Canada and the northern states, this genus is associated with willows, which are similarly trashy trees. ―K.G.A. Hamilton
Remarks
member of the tribe Cedusini Emeljanov 1992
Internet References
Genus page(1)
Works Cited
1.Bartlett C.R. and contributors (2017-) Planthoppers of North America
2.Taxonomic study of the planthopper genus Cedusa in the Americas (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Derbidae)
Flynn J.E., Kramer J.P. 1983. Entomography 2: 121-260.
3.Supplement to a taxonomic study of the planthopper genus Cedusa in the Americas (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Derbidae)
Kramer J.P. 1986. Entomography 4: 245―314.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 27 January, 2005 - 10:13am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 3 August, 2023 - 6:56pm

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