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Tribe Hecalini - Shovelhead Leafhoppers

Attenuipyga platyrhyncha - NEW SPECIES - Attenuipyga platyrhyncha - female Memnonia flavida Leafhopper - Memnonia Female, straw-colored form - Hecalus montanus - female Spangbergiella mexicana? - Spangbergiella mexicana Sharpshooter - Hecalus Memnonia leptalea CNC#HEM405434 / BOLD CNCHG1046-12 - Memnonia albolinea - 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 Cicadellidae (Typical Leafhoppers)
Subfamily Deltocephalinae
Tribe Hecalini (Shovelhead Leafhoppers)
Other Common Names
"Spoonbill" leafhoppers
Explanation of Names
Hecalini Distant 1908
Numbers
TBA spp. in 7 genera in our area (all in the nominate subtribe), 180 spp. in 23 genera total, in two subtribes(1)
Range
cosmopolitan
Habitat
grasslands
Food
grasses
Works Cited
1.Dmitriev D.A. (2003-) 3I interactive keys and taxonomic databases
Contributed by v belov on 1 October, 2011 - 10:02pm
Additional contributions by antarctica
Last updated 1 July, 2023 - 9:39pm

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