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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers (Cicadomorpha) » Leafhoppers and Treehoppers (Membracoidea) » Typical Treehoppers (Membracidae) » Smiliinae » Amastrini » Vanduzea

Genus Vanduzea

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Black Locust Treehopper - Vanduzea arquata Membracidae, face - Vanduzea triguttata Unknown Insect - Vanduzea triguttata Vanduzea triguttata/segmentata? - Vanduzea segmentata Vanduzea arquata Membracidae - Vanduzea laeta USNM_ENT 01113156 SYNTYPE - Vanduzea arquata Insect - Vanduzea arquata
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 Amastrini
Genus Vanduzea
Explanation of Names
Vanduzea Goding 1892
named after E.P. Van Duzee
Numbers
6 spp. in our area(1), 11 in total
Vanduzea albifrons (Fowler, 1895): CA; Mexico
Vanduzea arquata (Say, 1830): transcontinental U.S. and Canada
Vanduzea laeta Goding, 1893: southwestern U.S.: AZ, CA, CO
Vanduzea nolina Ball, 1932: AZ
Vanduzea segmentata (Fowler, 1895): southern U.S.; Mexico
Vanduzea triguttata (Burmeister, 1836): transcontinental U.S. and Canada
Extralimital species
Vanduzea brunnea (Fowler, 1895)
Vanduzea mayana Funkhouser, 1943
Vanduzea minor (Fowler, 1895)
Vanduzea punctipennis Funkhouser, 1919
Vanduzea variegata (Fowler, 1895)
Range
New World(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 Cotinis on 1 October, 2004 - 10:39pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, antarctica
Last updated 26 September, 2023 - 10:15am

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