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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 Treehoppers (Membracidae) » Smiliinae » Telamonini » Telamona » Sycamore Treehopper (Telamona collina)

Species Telamona collina - Sycamore Treehopper

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Sycamore Treehopper - Telamona collina Virginia Creeper Treehopper - Telamona collina Treehopper, Heliria or Telamona? - Telamona collina Treehopper, Heliria or Telamona? - Telamona collina Telamona collina Membracidae - Telamona collina USNM_ENT 01113021 - Telamona collina Telamona collina - 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 Cicadomorpha (Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers)
Superfamily Membracoidea (Leafhoppers and Treehoppers)
Family Membracidae (Typical Treehoppers)
Subfamily Smiliinae
Tribe Telamonini
Genus Telamona
Species collina (Sycamore Treehopper)
Explanation of Names
Telamona collina (Walker 1851)
Identification

SYNTYPE
Range
e US, CA - Map (1)(2)
Food
American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis, Platanaceae) (3)
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.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
3.Checklist and host plants of the treehoppers of North Carolina
Dietrich C.H., Rothschild M.J., Deitz L.L. 1999. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 101: 242‒262.
Contributed by Brad Barnd on 29 June, 2011 - 1:06pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, antarctica
Last updated 19 February, 2023 - 9:36am

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