Genus Scolops

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

UDCC_TCN 00021278 - Scolops austrinus - male

Dictyopharidae, nymph - Scolops sulcipes

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 Fulgoromorpha (Planthoppers)

Superfamily Fulgoroidea

Family Dictyopharidae (Dictyopharid Planthoppers)

Subfamily Dictyopharinae

Tribe Scoloptini

Genus Scolops

Explanation of Names

Scolops Schaum 1850

Numbers

32 spp. in 2 subgenera, all in our area(1)

Range

NA, so. Canada to n. Mexico(1)

Remarks

Our sole representative of the tribe Scoloptini Emeljanov 1983(1)

Print References

Ball, E. D. (1930). A new species and variety of Scolops with notes on others (Rhynchota, Fulgoridae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 7: 9-11.

Ball, E. D. (1937). Some New Fulgoridae from the Western United States. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 32(5): 171-183. (Full Text)

Beamer, R. H. (1929). Scolops osborni in Kansas (Homoptera, Fulgoridae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 2(3): 70-71. (Full Text)

Breakey, E. P. (1928). The Genus Scolops (Homoptera, Fulgoridae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 18 (6): 417-455. (Full Text)

Lawson, P. B. & R. H. Beamer. 1930. Some new Scolops with notes on other species. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 3(3): 67-72. (Full Text)

Internet References

Genus page - Univ. Delaware(1)

Informative web page on Scolops by Eric Eaton

Works Cited

1.	Bartlett C.R. and contributors (2017-) Planthoppers of North America

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 22 September, 2004 - 9:53pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 28 August, 2017 - 12:48am

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