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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) » Deltocephalinae » Pendarini » Chlorotettix

Genus Chlorotettix

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Unfreckled Green Cicadellid - Chlorotettix similis Chlorotettix necopinus Cicadellid -- ID request - Chlorotettix Leafhopper - Chlorotettix tergatus - female Chlorotettix - Chlorotettix viridius - female Chlorotettix - Chlorotettix galbanatus - female Chlorotettix spatulatus - female ? - Chlorotettix
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 Deltocephalinae
Tribe Pendarini
Genus Chlorotettix
Explanation of Names
Chlorotettix Van Duzee 1892
Numbers
45 described spp. in our area (13 reach Canada)(1)(2) and many undescribed; ~120 in 2 subgenera total(3)
subgenus Chlorotettix
Chlorotettix floridanus (DeLong, 1924): FL; Bahamas
Chlorotettix minimus (Baker, 1898): FL, SC
Chlorotettix scutellatus (Osborn, 1918): TX
Chlorotettix unicolor (Fitch, 1851)
Chlorotettix viridius (Van Duzee, 1892): eastern and central U.S., ID; Mexico; Caribbean
subgenus Incertae sedis
Chlorotettix albidus (Walker, 1851)
Chlorotettix attenuatus (Brown, 1933)
Chlorotettix aurum (DeLong, 1938)
Chlorotettix balli (Osborn, 1898)
Chlorotettix borealis (Sanders & DeLong, 1917)
Chlorotettix brevidus (DeLong, 1937)
Chlorotettix capensis (Sanders & DeLong, 1922)
Chlorotettix convexus (Brown, 1933)
Chlorotettix dentatus (Sanders & DeLong, 1923)
Chlorotettix distinctus (DeLong, 1918)
Chlorotettix divergens (Sanders & DeLong, 1922)
Chlorotettix dozieri (Sanders & DeLong, 1922)
Chlorotettix durus (Brown, 1933)
Chlorotettix excultus (Sanders & DeLong, 1922)
Chlorotettix fallax (Sanders & DeLong, 1922)
Chlorotettix filamentus (DeLong, 1937)
Chlorotettix fumidus (Sanders & DeLong, 1919)
Chlorotettix galbanatus (Van Duzee, 1892)
Chlorotettix iridescens (DeLong, 1916)
Chlorotettix latus (Brown, 1933)
Chlorotettix limosus (DeLong & Cartwright, 1926)
Chlorotettix lusorius (Osborn & Ball, 1897)
Chlorotettix maculosus (Brown, 1933)
Chlorotettix melanotus (DeLong, 1916)
Chlorotettix meriscus (Cwikla, 1987)
Chlorotettix necopinus (Van Duzee, 1893)
Chlorotettix nudatus (Ball, 1900)
Chlorotettix obsenus (DeLong, 1937)
Chlorotettix occidentalis (DeLong, 1918)
Chlorotettix orbonatus (Ball, 1903)
Chlorotettix rotundus (Brown, 1933)
Chlorotettix rugicollis (Ball, 1903)
Chlorotettix similis (DeLong, 1918)
Chlorotettix sinuosus (Brown, 1933)
Chlorotettix sordidus (Brown, 1933)
Chlorotettix spatulatus (Osborn & Ball, 1897)
Chlorotettix stolatus (Ball, 1900)
Chlorotettix suturalis (DeLong, 1916)
Chlorotettix tergatus (Fitch, 1851)
Chlorotettix tunicatus (Ball, 1900)
Chlorotettix vacunus (Crumb, 1915)
Range
Canada to Argentina; in our area, more diverse in the east(1)(3)
Remarks
molecular barcoding has shown that the genus Doleranus belongs within Chlorotettix (unpublished data)
Works Cited
1.Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska
Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.
2.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
3.Dmitriev D.A. (2003-) 3I interactive keys and taxonomic databases
Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 6 July, 2005 - 7:40am
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Mike Quinn, v belov, antarctica
Last updated 16 October, 2023 - 1:55pm

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