Campylenchia

Campylenchia
	Campylenchia latipes
Systematics
Order :	Schnabelkerfe (Hemiptera)
Subordination :	Risso cicadas (Cicadomorpha)
Superfamily :	Membracoidea
Family :	Humpback chirps (Membracidae)
Subfamily :	Membracinae
Genre :	Campylenchia
Scientific name
	Campylenchia
	Stål , 1869

Campylenchia is a genus of humpback chirps that occurs in the Neotropic and Nearctic (South, Central and North America). Five species are known, two of which, C. curvata and C. latipes, are also found in the USA.

features

The Campylenchia chirps are light or dark brown in color, sometimes with a gray tinge, sometimes almost black. Your pronotum is characterized by a conspicuous upward protrusion. This extension is flat (laterally compressed) and can be of different lengths and curved. Dorsally, this process merges evenly backward into the backward-facing process. The pronotum as a whole is roughly punctured, with a sharp dorsal keel and partially with longitudinal ridges. The head is longer than the distance between the eyes. Five apical cells and two discoidal cells are formed in the fore wing. The tibiae of the forelegs and middle legs are flattened. The types of Campylenchia are approx. 8 to 10 mm long.

Way of life

The females lay their eggs in groups on branches and guard their clutch. Both larvae and adult Campylenchia cicadas are visited by ants of the genera Azteca and Ectatomma . The host plants are generally Asteraceae and Fabaceae .

Systematics

The genus was established in 1869 by the Swedish entomologist Carl Stål . After a revision in 2014, the species of the genus Campylenchia should actually be included in the genus Enchenopa . However, most scientists apparently do not follow this reorganization (see Enchenopa ). The chirps are similar to the species of the closely related genus Enchophyllum .

Five species are distinguished within the genus:

Campylenchia curvata ( Fabricius , 1803)
Campylenchia hastata ( Fabricius , 1787)
Campylenchia latipes ( Say , 1824)
Campylenchia minans Fairmaire
Campylenchia tatei Goding

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ SH McKamey: Taxonomic Catalog of the Membracoidea (exclusive of leafhoppers) . In: Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute . tape 60 , 1998, ISBN 1-887988-04-1 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c C. Godoy, X. Miranda & K. Nishida: Treehoppers of tropical America . Ed .: Instituto National de Biodiversidad. Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica 2006, ISBN 9968-927-10-4 , pp. 200-201 .
↑ H. Strümpel & R. Strümpel: Revision of the Neotropical treehopper genus Enchophyllum (Hemiptera: Membracidae, Membracinae) . In: Entomological messages from the Zoological Museum Hamburg . tape 14 , no. 175 , 2014, pp. 335-371 .
↑ Treehoppers: Aetalionidae, Melizoderidae, and Membracidae (Hemiptera). Retrieved March 12, 2018 .
↑ Campylenchia - Classifications - Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved March 12, 2018 .

[:1-1] SH McKamey: Taxonomic Catalog of the Membracoidea (exclusive of leafhoppers) . In: Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute . tape 60 , 1998, ISBN 1-887988-04-1 .

[:0-2] C. Godoy, X. Miranda & K. Nishida: Treehoppers of tropical America . Ed .: Instituto National de Biodiversidad. Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica 2006, ISBN 9968-927-10-4 , pp. 200-201 .

[:2-3] H. Strümpel & R. Strümpel: Revision of the Neotropical treehopper genus Enchophyllum (Hemiptera: Membracidae, Membracinae) . In: Entomological messages from the Zoological Museum Hamburg . tape 14 , no. 175 , 2014, pp. 335-371 .

[:3-4] Treehoppers: Aetalionidae, Melizoderidae, and Membracidae (Hemiptera). Retrieved March 12, 2018 .

[:4-5] Campylenchia - Classifications - Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved March 12, 2018 .