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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 » Dictyonia

Genus Dictyonia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
Dictyonia obscura - Dictyonia n-sp - female Dictyonia obscura - Dictyonia n-sp - female Identification request - Dictyonia n-sp Dictyonia sp. (Maybe D. obscura?) - Dictyonia Dictyonia sp. (Maybe D. obscura?) - Dictyonia Dictyonia sp. (Maybe D. obscura?) - Dictyonia Dictyonia sp. (Maybe D. obscura?) - Dictyonia Dictyonia sp. (Maybe D. obscura?) - Dictyonia
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
Genus Dictyonia
Explanation of Names
Dictyonia Uhler, 1889
Numbers
A single species in our area(1)
Dictyonia obscura (Uhler, 1889): CA, WA
Identification
Dictyonia can be recognized among the Elicini by the forewings covering the abdomen (vs. Danepteryx or Osbornia); wing nearly as wide as long and semicircular in shape, costal margin decidedly rounding; forewings tegmina partly opaque, usually with an oblique hyaline band across clavus and corium; forewings almost as broad as long (vs. semicircular in Dictyssa), held almost vertically, cells of corium exceptionally few and large and distinctly angular.(1)
Range
CA-WA(1)
Food
None reported(1)
Internet References
Genus Page - Univ. Delaware(1)
Works Cited
1.Bartlett C.R. and contributors (2017-) Planthoppers of North America
Contributed by Brad Barnd on 17 January, 2008 - 10:14pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, antarctica
Last updated 16 December, 2020 - 4:37pm

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