Mosquito cicadas

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Mosquito cicadas
Tropiduchidae undet.

Tropiduchidae undet.

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Subclass : Flying insects (Pterygota)
Order : Schnabelkerfe (Hemiptera)
Subordination : Pointed-head cicadas (Fulgoromorpha)
Family : Mosquito cicadas
Scientific name
Tropiduchidae
Stål , 1866

Mosquito cicadas (Tropiduchidae) are a group of cicadas comprising more than 380 species worldwide, within which they belong to the Fulgoromorpha . Its main area of ​​distribution is in the tropics and subtropics . There are currently two subfamilies: Elicinae and Tropiduchinae. In Europe there are only representatives of the Tropiduchinae with two genera with 3 species: Ommatissus binotatus , six-point mosquito cicada ( Trypetimorpha occidentalis ) and four-point mosquito cicada ( Trypetimorpha fenestrata ), the latter two species also occur in parts of Central Europe. Omatissus lybicus is a major pest of the date palm in the Middle East .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tropiduchidae in Fauna Europaea , as of March 2, 2015.
  2. ^ WE Holzinger: Provisional directory of the cicadas of Central Europe (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha et Cicadomorpha); Preliminary checklist of the Auchenorrhyncha (leafhoppers, planthoppers, froghoppers, treehoppers, cicadas) of Central Europe , Stand 2003 ( [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF; 122 kB), accessed on May 8, 2007@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.oekoteam.at  

literature

  • WE Holzinger, I. Kammerlander, H. Nickel: The Auchenorrhyncha of Central Europe - Die Zikaden Mitteleuropas. Volume 1: Fulgoromorpha, Cicadomorpha excl. Cicadellidae. Brill, Leiden 2003, ISBN 90-04-12895-6 .