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Tribe Telamonini

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Treehopper ID Request - Telamona monticola ? - Telamona monticola Heliria cornutula Membracidae - Heliria Treehopper - Glossonotus turriculatus Telamona scalaris - Heliria scalaris Treehopper, Heliria? - Heliria gibberata Telamona? - Telamona projecta Heliria strombergi IDd on iNaturalist - Heliria strombergi

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

Explanation of Names

Telamonini Goding 1892

Numbers

10 genera, with >60 spp. in our area(1) and 68 total(2)

Identification

notoriously difficult to identify, often impossible without specimens ▪ intraspecific variability high ▪ host plant info often critical ▪ many species undescribed ▪ image-based species IDs mostly tentative

Range

New World; 7 genera occur only in the Nearctic region(3)

Food

host plants listed in(4)

Remarks

"...many of the 'genera' are in fact just distinctive pronotal shapes of closely related species. There are species of Heliria, Telamona and even Glossonotus that are so closely related that they genetically 'barcode' as the same species!" ―K.G.A. Hamilton, pers. comm. to =v=, 12.viii.2013
Generic concepts may be clarified in the future through nymph association.

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.Taxonomic changes in the treehopper genera Helonica Ball, Telamona Fitch, and Palonica Ball (Hemiptera: Membracidae...)
Wallace M.S. 2015. ZooTaxa 4007(2): .
3.Deitz L.L., Wallace M.S. (team leaders), et al. (2010‒) Treehoppers: Aetalionidae, Melizoderidae, and Membracidae (Hemiptera)
4.The host plants of the Telamonini treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Smiliinae) and the first diagnoses of nymphs for 14 spp.
Wallace M.S. 2014. Zootaxa 3878: 146-166.
Contributed by v belov on 23 November, 2012 - 11:57am
Additional contributions by antarctica
Last updated 12 June, 2024 - 7:58pm

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