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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 » Micrutalini » Micrutalis » Micrutalis parva

Species Micrutalis parva

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Treehopper - Micrutalis parva Treehopper - Micrutalis parva Treehopper- Micrutalis parva? - Micrutalis parva Micrutalis parva (Goding) - Micrutalis parva Micrutalis parva (Goding) - Micrutalis parva Micrutalis parva (Goding) - Micrutalis parva
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 Micrutalini
Genus Micrutalis
Species parva (Micrutalis parva)
Explanation of Names
Micrutalis parva (Goding 1893)
Range
CA-AZ (1)(2), but BG records are from c. & s. TX-LA & FL(1) ?
Remarks
very long series of Micrutalis spmns in the TAMUIC(3), but only Micrutalis calva are determined to sp. for Texas...
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of the Hemiptera of American north of Mexico: Except Aphididae, Coccidae and Aleurodidae. Vol. 2.
Van Duzee, E.P. 1917. University of California Press, Berkeley. xiv + 902 pp.
2.Richness of the Nearctic treehopper fauna (Hemiptera: Aetalionidae and Membracidae)
Deitz L.L., Wallace M.S. 2012. Zootaxa 3423: 1–26.
3.Texas A&M University Insect Collection (TAMUIC)
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 6 July, 2006 - 4:56pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 31 January, 2024 - 1:07pm

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