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Tribe Membracini

egg cases -- 8 months later - Enchenopa Treehopper - Enchenopa latipes two marked treehopper - Enchenopa Wide-footed Treehopper - Enchenopa latipes Widefooted Treehopper - Enchenopa latipes Unknown very small insect on plant near water. - Enchenopa two-marked treehopper? - Enchenopa on-cercis-canadensis Two-marked Treehopper (Enchenopa binotata)? - Enchenopa
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 Membracinae
Tribe Membracini
Numbers
23-24 spp. in 5-6 genera in our area(1), _ spp. in 17 genera total(2)
Range
throughout the tropical and temperate regions of the Americas(2)
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.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 - 6:43pm
Last updated 17 July, 2015 - 11:03am

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