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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).
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.
The Auchenorrhyncha suborder of the Hemiptera contains most of the familiar members of what was called the "Homoptera" – groups such as cicadas, leafhoppers, treehoppers, planthoppers, and spittlebugs.
Telamona ampelopsidis, like all treehoppers, feeds on the sap from under leaves. However, T. ampelopsidis exclusively feeds on the Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia). The Virginia creeper was once placed in the genus Ampelopsis at the time that Thaddeus William Harris described the species in 1841, hence the species epithet ...
Enchenopa squamigera Nymph, on walnut tree.. Enchenopa is a genus of treehoppers in the family Membracidae.There are more than 50 described species in Enchenopa. [1] [2] [3]The genus underwent a major revision 2014, resulting in 51 species.
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 western ...
These "treehoppers" are polyphagous, feeding on plant juices, which they take with their specially built, piercing-sucking mouth parts. The larvae mainly live on Cirsium , Carduus and Urtica species, while the adult insects prefer Populus , Quercus and Rubus species. [ 3 ]
Order: Hemiptera: Suborder: ... Genus: Ceresa Amyot & Serville, 1843: Ceresa, commonly known as buffalo treehoppers, is a genus of ... This page was last edited on 27 ...