Genus Cedusa

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

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 Fulgoromorpha (Planthoppers)

Superfamily Fulgoroidea

Family Derbidae (Derbid Planthoppers)

Subfamily Breddiniolinae

Tribe Cedusini

Genus Cedusa

Explanation of Names

Cedusa Fowler 1904

Numbers

33 spp. in our area, ~180 total(1)

Identification

nymphs:

Range

e NA to Calif. to Argentina(1)

Food

Nymphs feed on fungi that develop in leaf litter. So far, this has been studied only in Florida on palm branch litter, but obviously this would also apply where cottonwoods produce so much litter. In Canada and the northern states, this genus is associated with willows, which are similarly trashy trees. --Andy Hamilton

Print References

Flynn J.E., Kramer J.P. (1983) Taxonomic study of the planthopper genus Cedusa in the Americas (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Derbidae). Entomography 2: 121-260.

Howard F.W., Weissling T.J., O’Brien L.B. (2001) The larval habitat of Cedusa inflata (hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Derbidae) and its relationship with adult distribution on palms. Fla. Entomol. 84: 119-122. (Full text)

Internet References

Genus page(1)

Works Cited

1.	Bartlett C.R. and contributors (2017-) Planthoppers of North America

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 27 January, 2005 - 10:13am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 25 February, 2023 - 2:52pm

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