Subfamily Cicadellinae - Sharpshooters

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Food · Print References · Works Cited

Graphocephala versuta? - Graphocephala versuta

Data point for March in New Brunswick - Neokolla hieroglyphica

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 Cicadellidae (Leafhoppers)

Subfamily Cicadellinae (Sharpshooters)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

=Amblycephalinae, Tettigellinae

Explanation of Names

The name 'sharpshooters' refers to their habit of forcing excess water droplets out of the tip of the abdomen with an audible popping noise. (based on Dr Hamilton's comment)

Numbers

ca. 160 spp. in >30 genera in our area(1); ~2,400 spp. in ~330 genera worldwide, arranged in 2 tribes(2)

Food

xylem feeders

Print References

McKamey, S.H. (2007) Taxonomic Catalogue of the Leafhoppers (Membracoidea). Part 1. Cicadellinae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 78: 1–394.

Young, D.A. (1968) Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera, Cicadellidae). Part 1. Proconiini. United States National Museum Technical Bulletin 261. 287 pp.

Young, D.A. (1977) Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Part 2. New World Cicadellini and the genus Cicadella. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 239. 1135 pp. (title page)

Works Cited

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

2.	Sharpshooter leafhoppers of the world (Hemiptera:Cicadellidae subfamily Cicadellinae), by M.R. Wilson, J.A. Turner, S.H. McKamey

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 18 May, 2006 - 6:01pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Hannah Nendick-Mason, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 2 October, 2011 - 4:59pm

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