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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) » Cicadas (Cicadoidea) » Cicadas (Cicadidae) » Tibicininae » Tibicinini » Clidophleps

Genus Clidophleps

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Internet References
Cicada maybe? - Clidophleps Cicada maybe? - Clidophleps Unknown Cicada - Clidophleps distanti Cicada from coastal San Diego County, CA - Clidophleps Cicada - Clidophleps Okanagodes gracilis? - Clidophleps - male LaSierra Hills-0BG.1962.J01 - Clidophleps Clidophelps? - Clidophleps
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 Cicadoidea (Cicadas)
Family Cicadidae (Cicadas)
Subfamily Tibicininae
Tribe Tibicinini
Genus Clidophleps
Explanation of Names
Clidophleps Van Duzee, 1915
from Greek kleidos (κλειδος)- "hook, key" (genitive/"of" form of kleis- κλεις) + phleps (φλεψ)- "vein or artery".
Van Duzee mentioned the importance of "the greatly thickened and nodose transverse vein at the apex of the clavus". Phleps is an approximate Greek translation of "vein", so he may have meant for kleidos to be a translation for clavus- but kleidos is the Greek translation for Latin clavis ("key"), not clavus ("club").
Numbers
7 species in our area, 8 in total
Clidophleps beameri Davis, 1936: CA
Clidophleps blaisdellii (Uhler, 1892): CA, AZ
Clidophleps distanti (Van Duzee, 1914): CA, NV; Mexico (Baja California Sur)
Clidophleps tenuis Davis, 1927: CA, NV; Mexico (Baja California Sur)
Clidophleps vagans Davis, 1925: CA, NV, AZ; Mexico
Clidophleps wrighti Davis, 1926: CA; Mexico (Baja California Sur)
extralimital species
Clidophleps astigma Davis, 1917: Mexico (Baja California Sur)
Internet References
Journal of the New York Entomological Society, v.23,p.31    Van Duzee's original description of the genus
Contributed by Jeffrey Cole on 20 December, 2007 - 4:11pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, antarctica
Last updated 1 October, 2023 - 7:12pm

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