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Genus Oeclidius

Planthopper - Oeclidius - male - female Cixiidae on Artemisia - Oeclidius Oeclidius nanus Van Duzee - Oeclidius UCRC_ENT 227068 - Oeclidius - male UDCC_TCN 00102494 (ALLOTYPE) - Oeclidius carolus UDCC_TCN 00102501 (HOLOTYPE) - Oeclidius transversus Oeclidius CASTYPE 2251 - Oeclidius nanus - 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 Meenoploidea
Family Meenoplidae (Meenoplid Planthoppers)
Genus Oeclidius
Explanation of Names
Oeclidius Van Duzee, 1914
Numbers
6 spp. in our area(1)
Range
w. US & BC, Mexico(1)(2)
Food
Asteraceae, Amaranthaceae(2)
See Also
resemble small cixiids (perhaps especially Oecleus) with the vertex of the head narrow and trough-like; frons very narrow near top of head, widening toward frontoclypeal suture. Unlike Cixiidae, females have the ovipositor ‘reduced’ instead of strongly projecting and ‘orthopteroid’. The hallmark feature of the family is that abdominal tergites 7-9 are ‘chevron-shaped’.(2)
Print References
Ball E.D. (1934) The genus Oeclidius Van Duzee (Homoptera-Fulgoridae). Pan-Pac. Entomol. 10(2): 77-80.
Fennah R.G. (1973) Three new cavernicolous species of Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) from Mexico and Western Australia. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 86(38): 439-446.
Internet References
Genus page(2)
Works Cited
1.Dmitriev D.A. (2003-) 3I interactive keys and taxonomic databases
2.Bartlett C.R. and contributors (2017-) Planthoppers of North America
Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 11 August, 2008 - 9:30pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, KenW
Last updated 14 September, 2021 - 10:27am

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