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Tribe Ceresini - Buffalo Treehoppers and allies

ID Request - Spissistilus festinus ?Stictocephala lutea - Stictocephala lutea Unknown Insect - Stictocephala basalis Leafhopper nymph? Found on ivy from Canada in Woodbury, CT. Thanks for any help :) - Stictocephala Stictocephala taurina - Stictocephala - female Tortistilus lateralis? - Tortistilus lateralis USNM_ENT 01113110 - Stictocephala tauriniformis - male Spissistilus? - Spissistilus
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 Ceresini (Buffalo Treehoppers and allies)
Pronunciation
reviewed in (1)
Explanation of Names
Ceresini Goding 1892
Numbers
~50 spp. in 12 genera in our area(2), 22 genera total(3)
Range
New World (introduced elsewhere)(3)
Works Cited
1.A taxonomic review of the tribe Ceresini (Homoptera: Membracidae)
Kopp D.D., Yonke T.R. 1979. Mis. Pub. of the ESA 11(2): 1‒97.
2.Richness of the Nearctic treehopper fauna (Hemiptera: Aetalionidae and Membracidae)
Deitz L.L., Wallace M.S. 2012. Zootaxa 3423: 1–26.
3.Deitz L.L., Wallace M.S. (team leaders), et al. (2010-) Treehoppers: Aetalionidae, Melizoderidae, and Membracidae (Hemiptera)
Contributed by v belov on 23 November, 2012 - 11:57am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, antarctica
Last updated 20 September, 2023 - 7:47am

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