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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoromorpha) » Delphacoidea » Cixiid Planthoppers (Cixiidae) » Cixiinae » Pentastirini » Melanoliarus

Genus Melanoliarus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Oliarus vicarius? - Melanoliarus vicarius - female Planthopper - Melanoliarus - male Cixiid - Melanoliarus placitus Hopper? - Melanoliarus UDCC_TCN 00101486D - Melanoliarus forcipatus - female UDCC_TCN 00101758 - Melanoliarus teximus - male Melanoliarus placitus UDCC_TCN 00102497 (HOLOTYPE) - Melanoliarus viequensis - male
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 Delphacoidea
Family Cixiidae (Cixiid Planthoppers)
Subfamily Cixiinae
Tribe Pentastirini
Genus Melanoliarus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
most New World spp. formerly treated in Oliarus have been moved here, and the remaining few to Reptalus or Pentastiridius; Oliarus is now considered to be an Old World genus(1)
Explanation of Names
Melanoliarus Fennah 1945
Numbers
46 spp. in our area, ~80 total(1)
Melanoliarus acicus (Caldwell, 1947)
Melanoliarus altanatus (Caldwell, 1951)
Melanoliarus altanus (Ball, 1934)
Melanoliarus apache (Ball, 1934)
Melanoliarus aridus (Ball, 1902)
Melanoliarus arizonensis (Mead & Kramer, 1982)
Melanoliarus bispinus (Caldwell, 1947)
Melanoliarus caldwelli (Mead & Kramer, 1982)
Melanoliarus californicus (Van Duzee, 1914)
Melanoliarus canyonensis (Mead & Kramer, 1982)
Melanoliarus catus (Caldwell, 1947)
Melanoliarus chuliotus (Ball, 1934)
Melanoliarus coconinus (Ball, 1934)
Melanoliarus complectus (Ball, 1902)
Melanoliarus corvinus (Ball, 1934)
Melanoliarus difficilis (Van Duzee, 1912)
Melanoliarus dondonius (Ball, 1934)
Melanoliarus ecologus (Caldwell, 1947)
Melanoliarus eximus (Caldwell, 1947)
Melanoliarus forcipatus (Caldwell, 1947)
Melanoliarus hesperius (Van Duzee, 1917)
Melanoliarus humilis (Say, 1830)
Melanoliarus kieferi (Mead & Kramer, 1982)
Melanoliarus knullorum (Mead & Kramer, 1982)
Melanoliarus littoralis (Ball, 1934)
Melanoliarus lobatus (Caldwell, 1938)
Melanoliarus montanus (Metcalf, 1923)
Melanoliarus papagonus (Ball, 1934)
Melanoliarus pima (Kirkaldy, 1907)
Melanoliarus placitus (Van Duzee, 1912)
Melanoliarus pygmaeus (Ball, 1937)
Melanoliarus quinquelineatus (Say, 1830)
Melanoliarus retentus (Caldwell, 1947)
Melanoliarus sablensis (Caldwell, 1951)
Melanoliarus sementinus (Ball, 1902)
Melanoliarus slossoni (Van Duzee, 1912)
Melanoliarus sonoitus (Ball, 1937)
Melanoliarus sylvaticus (Caldwell, 1947)
Melanoliarus texanus (Metcalf, 1923)
Melanoliarus teximus (Caldwell, 1947)
Melanoliarus truncatus (Van Duzee, 1929)
Melanoliarus uncatus (Caldwell, 1947)
Melanoliarus vicarius (Walker, 1851)
Melanoliarus viequensis (Caldwell, 1951)
Melanoliarus yavapanus (Ball, 1934)
Melanoliarus zyxus (Caldwell, 1947)
Identification
Head angularly incised posteriorly, mesonotum with 5 carinae (intermediate carinae sometimes obsolete), 10 or fewer teeth at apex of hind tarsimere (not definitively separated from Reptalus).
North American species can be keyed out by Mead & Kramer (1982), which relies entirely on male genitalia.(1)
Range
New World, Canada to Argentina(1)
Print References
Mead F.W., Kramer J.P. (1982) Taxonomic study of the planthopper genus Oliarus in the United States (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Cixiidae). Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 107: 381-569.
Internet References
Genus page(1)
Works Cited
1.Bartlett C.R. and contributors (2017-) Planthoppers of North America
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 2 February, 2005 - 7:26pm
Additional contributions by anitagould, Mike Quinn, v belov, antarctica
Last updated 30 March, 2024 - 9:29pm

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