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Keeled treehoppers mothers exhibit parental care and spend time protecting their egg masses. [5] They are phloem feeders, and their diet consists of liquids extracted from plants. [ 6 ] Plant sap, while a convenient material to feed on, is lacking in many different nutrients including essential amino acids . [ 7 ]
Eggs are laid by the female with her saw-like ovipositor in slits cut into the cambium or live tissue of stems, though some species lay eggs on top of leaves or stems. The eggs may be parasitised by wasps, such as the tiny fairyflies (Mymaridae) and Trichogrammatidae. The females of some membracid species sit over their eggs to protect them ...
Antianthe expansa, known generally as the keeled tree hopper or solanaceous treehopper, is a species of treehopper in the family Membracidae. [1] [2] [3] Subspecies
These treehoppers lay their eggs on its host plant's branches, as well as spend their juvenile and adult life on one plant. [2] Egg hatching of these treehoppers are tied into the sap flow of their host plants. After winter, flow of the plant's sap to their stems is the stimuli the eggs need to start hatching.
Meenoplidae is a family of fulgoromorph planthoppers that are closely related to the Kinnaridae.They are small, with tent-like wings and usually are less than a centimetre long and a little more than a 100 species in around 25 genera are known with a distribution restricted to the Old World.
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.
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 ]
Melizoderidae is a family of treehoppers restricted to South America with only two genera, Melizoderes and Llanquihuea. The nymphs of melizoderids have the tergum of the 9th segment concealing the anal opening from above. The frontoclypeus (forehead) is convex and extended forward and below.