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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers (Cicadomorpha) » Leafhoppers and Treehoppers (Membracoidea) » Typical Treehoppers (Membracidae) » Smiliinae » Telamonini » Telamona » Telamona tristis

Species Telamona tristis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Brown Tree Hopper - Telamona tristis Telamona tristis Fitch - Telamona tristis - male Telamona species? - Telamona tristis Treehopper - Telamona tristis Telamona sp - Telamona tristis Telamona tristis Telamona tristis Telamona tristis ? - Telamona tristis
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 Cicadomorpha (Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers)
Superfamily Membracoidea (Leafhoppers and Treehoppers)
Family Membracidae (Typical Treehoppers)
Subfamily Smiliinae
Tribe Telamonini
Genus Telamona
Species tristis (Telamona tristis)
Explanation of Names
Telamona tristis Fitch 1851
Size
8‒8.5 mm(1)
Identification
easily recognized by its square-shaped crest ‒K.G.A. Hamilton
Range
e NA(2), ?FL(1)
Food
Host associations: Carpinus, Corylis, Quercus macrocarpa, Carya ovata(1)
Works Cited
1.Rothschild M.J. (2012) A checklist of the Membracidae of Florida
2.Richness of the Nearctic treehopper fauna (Hemiptera: Aetalionidae and Membracidae)
Deitz L.L., Wallace M.S. 2012. Zootaxa 3423: 1–26.
Contributed by Claude Pilon on 24 July, 2007 - 8:45am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 15 September, 2023 - 3:05pm

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