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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Free-living Hemipterans (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadoidea » Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) » Coelidiinae » Coelidia

Genus Coelidia

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Internet References
Nymph - Coelidia olitoria Green planthopper - Coelidia olitoria Leafhopper - Coelidia olitoria Leafhopper - Coelidia olitoria Coelidia olitoria? - Coelidia olitoria - female Leafhopper - Coelidia olitoria - male Leafhopper - Coelidia olitoria Leafhopper - Coelidia olitoria - 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 Cicadellidae (Leafhoppers)
Subfamily Coelidiinae
Genus Coelidia
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Jikradia (in part)
New World species of Coelidia were separated into a new genus (Jikradia) by M.W. Nielson in 1979, but the erection of a new genus is considered unjustified in a comment here by Andy Hamilton, who treats Jikradia as a subgenus of Coelidia
Numbers
2 species in North America listed (under Jikradia) at nearctica.com
10 additional New World species in Central America and Galapagos Islands
about 200 species worldwide
Size
body length 6-8 mm
Range
eastern North America to Central America and the Galapagos Islands
Coelidia species also occur in South America, Africa, southern Asia, and parts of Europe
Internet References
live adult image of C. olitoria (U. of Illinois)
pinned adult image of C. olitoria (Insects of Cedar Creek, Minnesota)
distribution of New World species and classification as Jikradia (A review of the leafhopper genus Jikradia with descriptions of four new species; Carolina Godoy [Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Costa Rica] and M.W. Nielson [Brigham Young U., Utah])
list of world species plus synonyms and distribution (US Dept. of Agriculture)
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 23 September, 2004 - 10:32pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod
Last updated 30 July, 2006 - 8:50pm

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