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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) » Fulgoroidea » Tropiduchid Planthoppers (Tropiduchidae) » Elicini

Tribe Elicini

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Gray nymph on redwood - Danepteryx To blacklite - Neaethus Cicadellidae - Osbornia arborea Planthopper - Dictyobia semivitrea Dictyonissus griphus Neaethus vitripennis? - Neaethus Tribe Elicini? Tribe Elicini?
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 Tropiduchidae (Tropiduchid Planthoppers)
Tribe Elicini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
members of this tribe used to be treated in Issidae
Numbers
62 spp. in 10 genera in our area(1)
Danepteryx (Uhler, 1889): southwestern U.S.; northern Mexico
Dictyssonia (Ball, 1936): AZ
Dictyobia (Uhler, 1889): southwestern U.S.
Dictyonia (Uhler, 1889): western U.S.
Dictyonissus (Uhler, 1876): western U.S.; Mexico
Dictyssa (Melichar, 1906): western U.S.; Mexico
Dyctidea (Uhler, 1889): western U.S.
Misodema (Melichar, 1907): western U.S.
Neaethus (Stål, 1861): southwestern U.S.; Mexico
Osbornia (Ball, 1910): southwestern U.S.
Identification
Forewings reticulate, with some cells clear and membranous; pronotum often projecting forward beyond middle of eyes; clypeus usually strongly carinate(1)
Range
sw. US to the Neotropics(1)(2)
Remarks
this tribe should probably be placed in Nogodinidae—further investigation is required.
Works Cited
1.A review of the planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) of the United States
Bartlett C. R., O'Brien L. B. & Wilson S. W. 2014. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 50: 1-287.
2.Bourgoin T. (2017) FLOW (Fulgoromorpha Lists on the Web): a world knowledge base dedicated to Fulgoromorpha. Version 8.
Contributed by v belov on 21 August, 2015 - 7:37pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, antarctica
Last updated 25 February, 2021 - 11:57am

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