Species Campylenchia latipes

Classification · Identification · Remarks · Internet References

Which hopper, please? - Campylenchia latipes

Treehopper - Campylenchia latipes - female

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 Campylenchia

Species latipes (Campylenchia latipes)

Identification

The only species in the east with this appearance (forward-pointing horn) (see comment on nymph, below).

Hind legs are spiny, front legs are leaf-like.

Nymph:

Adult:

Remarks

They are generally tended by ants.

Internet References

Insects of West Virginia.

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 18 October, 2009 - 3:33pm

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