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Genus Reticopsis

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Leaf Hopper - Reticopsis nubila Brown cicadellid - Reticopsis nubila orange-brown+black+white smooth+compact hopper - Reticopsis Reticopsis female - Reticopsis - female Cicadellidae, Reticopsis? - Reticopsis udrobates Cicadellidae, Reticopsis? - Reticopsis udrobates Cicadellidae, Reticopsis? - Reticopsis udrobates Leafhopper July 31 - Reticopsis

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 Eurymelinae
Tribe Macropsini
Genus Reticopsis

Explanation of Names

Reticopsis Hamilton

Numbers

2 spp., both in our area

Identification

Key to the two species in our area from Hamilton 1983 (1):

"Key to the species of Reticopsis Hmlt.

l. Unicolorous tawny, mottled with fuscous (Fig. 50); male style nearly parallel-margined to
apex (Fig. 61) . . . nubila (Van D.), p. 30

- Ochre-yellow, with tegmina brown and lower half of pleura, thoracic sterna, and bases of
legs contrastingly black (Fig. 51); style distinctly broader on apical quarter (Fig. 55) . . . udrobates n. sp. p.32"

Range

CA & Baja

Works Cited

1.Revision of the Macropsini and Neopsini of the new-world (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae), with notes on intersex morphology
K.G.A. Hamilton. 1983. D.C. Eidt Editor.
Contributed by v belov on 19 February, 2012 - 6:42pm
Additional contributions by kschnei
Last updated 16 May, 2020 - 11:27am

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