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Treehoppers, due to their unusual appearance, have long interested naturalists. They are best known for their enlarged and ornate pronotum, expanded into often fantastic shapes that enhance their camouflage or mimicry, often resembling plant thorns (thus the commonly used name of "thorn bugs" for a number of treehopper species). Treehoppers ...
The Brazilian treehopper (Bocydium globulare) is a species of insect [1] belonging to the treehopper family (Membracidae). [2] It has unusual appendages on its thorax. While Bocydium can be found throughout the world, they are most prevalent in Africa , North and South America , Asia and Australia . [ 3 ]
These minute insects, colloquially known as hoppers, are plant feeders that suck plant sap from grass, shrubs, or trees. Their hind legs are modified for jumping, and are covered with hairs that facilitate the spreading of a secretion over their bodies that acts as a water repellent and carrier of pheromones . [ 1 ]
Vanduzea triguttata, also known as the three-spotted treehopper, is a species of treehopper belonging to the genus Vanduzea. It was first described by the German entomologist Ernst-Gerhard Burmeister in 1836.
S. diceros caught in the web of an Neoscona arabesca.. Stictocephala diceros, the two-horned treehopper, is a species of hemipteran insect within the family Membracidae. [1] The species range includes much of eastern North America, which includes southeastern Canada in areas adjacent the United States border and US state regions such as the Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, as well as some ...
Images at iNaturalist Gargara is a large genus of tree-hoppers , typical of the tribe Gargarini , erected by Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot and Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville in 1843. [ 1 ] There are widespread species records from Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Male E. binotata 'Ptelea' treehopper from an Illinois population signaling at 24 °C E. binotata male signal that contains 2 signals in 1 bout with 2 pulses each. Male E. binotata treehoppers make substrate-borne vibrations on the stems, petioles, and leaves of their host plants that travel throughout the plant.
Telamona collina, also known as the sycamore treehopper [1] is a species of treehopper in the genus Telamona. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1851.