Genus Thelia

Classification

Male Locust Treehopper - Thelia bimaculata - male

Locust Treehopper - Thelia bimaculata - male

Black Locust (the host plant) - Thelia bimaculata

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 Thelia

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 24 September, 2004 - 5:07pm

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