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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Free-living Hemipterans (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadomorpha » Leafhoppers, Treehoppers and Aetalionids (Membracoidea) » Treehoppers (Membracidae) » Smiliinae » Smiliini » Smilia

Genus Smilia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited
Smilia - Smilia fasciata Smilia camelus (Fabricius) - Smilia camelus - male hopper 70 - Smilia Treehopper nymph - Smilia camelus Smilia camelus (treehoppers) on young red oak - Smilia camelus Smilia fasciata or camelus? - Smilia camelus Nymph - Smilia camelus Treehopper - Smilia fasciata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Free-living Hemipterans)
Infraorder Cicadomorpha
Superfamily Membracoidea (Leafhoppers, Treehoppers and Aetalionids)
Family Membracidae (Treehoppers)
Subfamily Smiliinae
Tribe Smiliini
Genus Smilia
Explanation of Names
Smilia Germar 1833
Numbers
2 spp. in our area(1)
Range
S. camelus widespread in e. NA and reaches se. Canada, TX, CA; S. fasciata NJ-FL & NE(1)
Food
Host plants: Rhus, Robinia, Quercus, Carya(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 Tony DiTerlizzi on 13 January, 2005 - 9:23pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 13 December, 2013 - 11:44am

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