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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Free-living Hemipterans (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoroidea) » Derbid Planthoppers (Derbidae)

Family Derbidae - Derbid Planthoppers

Classification · Numbers · Size · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Planthopper - Cedusa Derbid hopper - Otiocerus degeeri planthopper - Cedusa maculata Hopper - Otiocerus degeeri - female Hopper ID - Otiocerus coquebertii - female ?? - Otiocerus degeeri Planthopper - Anotia bonnetii Thing1 - Otiocerus wolfii
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 Fulgoroidea (Planthoppers)
Family Derbidae (Derbid Planthoppers)
Numbers
70 spp. in 17 genera in our area(1)
Size
8-11 mm(1)
Food
woody fungi on rotten logs(1)
Remarks
"Nymphs of Derbidae feed on fungi. Adults just seem to hang around on vegetation waiting on others passing by." --Andy Hamilton
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 28 September, 2004 - 5:16pm
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, Stephen Cresswell, ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 16 December, 2010 - 9:35pm

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