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Species Heliria cristata

Heliria sp.? - Heliria cristata Treehopper on plantain - Heliria cristata Unknown Treehopper - Heliria cristata treehopper - Heliria cristata treehopper - Heliria cristata Slate-gray buffalo treehopper - Heliria cristata - male Heliria cristata? - Heliria cristata Heliria Cristata - Heliria cristata
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 Membracidae (Typical Treehoppers)
Subfamily Smiliinae
Tribe Telamonini
Genus Heliria
Species cristata (Heliria cristata)
Explanation of Names
Heliria cristata (Fairmaire, 1846)
Range
e. US / Ont. (1)
Food
Celtis occidentalis (common hackberry)
Corylus (hazelnut)
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
Quercus alba (white oak)
Quercus macrocarpa (bur oak)
Quercus palustris (pin oak)
Quercus stellata (post oak)
Quercus velutina (black oak)(2)
Works Cited
1.Richness of the Nearctic treehopper fauna (Hemiptera: Aetalionidae and Membracidae)
Deitz L.L., Wallace M.S. 2012. Zootaxa 3423: 1–26.
2.The host plants of the Telamonini treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Smiliinae) and the first diagnoses of nymphs for 14 spp.
Wallace M.S. 2014. Zootaxa 3878: 146-166.
Contributed by Cotinis on 16 December, 2007 - 8:10am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, antarctica
Last updated 13 March, 2021 - 2:15pm

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