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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers (Cicadomorpha) » Leafhoppers and Treehoppers (Membracoidea) » Typical Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) » Typhlocybinae » Typhlocybini » Empoa

Genus Empoa

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · 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 Cicadomorpha (Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers)

Superfamily Membracoidea (Leafhoppers and Treehoppers)

Family Cicadellidae (Typical Leafhoppers)

Subfamily Typhlocybinae

Tribe Typhlocybini

Genus Empoa

Explanation of Names

Empoa (Fitch, 1851)

Numbers

16 spp. (all in the nominate subgenus) in our area, 24 spp. in 3 subgenera total(1)

Empoa albicans (Walsh, 1862)

Empoa apicata (McAtee, 1926

Empoa aureotecta (Sanders & DeLong, 1917)

Empoa bella (Hamilton, 1983)

Empoa casta (McAtee, 1926)

Empoa gillettei (Van Duzee, 1917)

Empoa latifasciata (Christian, 1953)

Empoa platana (Christian, 1953)

Empoa querci (Fitch, 1851)

Empoa rubricola (Christian, 1954)

Empoa saffrana (McAtee, 1926)

Empoa scripta (McAtee, 1919)

Empoa spinosa (Beamer, 1943)

Empoa unifasciata (Hamilton, 1983)

Empoa venusta (McAtee, 1926)

Empoa vestita (McAtee, 1926)

Range

the nominate subgenus is confined to the US & Canada, two other subgenera in E. Palaearctic(1)

Remarks

"[...] most species cannot be separated based on genitalia, only albicans and spinosa have distinct genitalia. We have limited barcode data, but what we do have suggests little or no differentiation within the gillettei complex at least. However, there is supposedly some association of the different colour forms with specific hosts. I think if the species are all truly distinct they must be very recently diverged." - J. Kits pers. comm. to S. Hendrix

Works Cited

1.	Dmitriev D.A. (2003-) 3I interactive keys and taxonomic databases

Contributed by Kyle Kittelberger on 14 February, 2018 - 11:09am
Additional contributions by v belov, antarctica
Last updated 22 December, 2020 - 3:04pm

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