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Genus Cedusa

Cedusa - Cedusa maculata Cedusa edentula? - Cedusa edentula Cedusa incisa - male Cedusa maculata ? - Cedusa maculata Cedusa californica? - Cedusa californica Cedusa - Cedusa woodsholensis - male Cedusa incisa - male Cedusa
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)
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