Genus Oliarus

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Works Cited

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 Fulgoroidea (Planthoppers)

Family Cixiidae (Cixiid Planthoppers)

Genus Oliarus

Numbers

51 spp. in our area(1)(2)

Identification

Five ridges on the thorax characterize this genus

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico By Ross H. Arnett

2.	3I Interactive Keys and Taxonomic Databases, by D.A. Dmitriev

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 2 February, 2005 - 7:26pm
Additional contributions by anitagould, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 11 June, 2011 - 10:50pm

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