Tapinolobus

Thorn leaf hoppers
	Tapinolobus curvispina (Walker, F., 1858) (= Tapinolobus fasciatus ), scanning electron microscope image, from the Zoological State Collection Munich , measuring bar = 1 mm
Systematics
Order :	Schnabelkerfe (Hemiptera)
Subordination :	Risso cicadas (Cicadomorpha)
Superfamily :	Membracoidea
Family :	Humpback chirps (Membracidae)
Subfamily :	Centrotinae
Genre :	Thorn leaf hoppers
Scientific name
	Tapinolobus
	Sakakibara , 1969

Tapinolobus curvispina (syn. T. fasciatus), collection specimen

Tapinolobus is a genus of humpback chirps .

features

These humpbacks are approx. 4.9 to 6.5 millimeters long. The color is brown, reddish brown or yellowish green, often with lighter lines. They have an elongated shape, the pronotum has only one process directed backwards, but it does not reach the end of the forewings. There are no lateral or upward spines or appendages. The pronotum is only slightly hairy and weakly dotted. The head is roughly triangular, the fore wings are transparent with five apical and three discoidal cells.

Way of life

Practically nothing is known about the way of life of these Membracidae, they suck plant sap . Sometimes T. curvispina was caught quite frequently in the Panguana research station in Peru, in other years not at all.

Systematics

The genus is closely related to various similar genera such as Amblyophallus and Stictolobus , from which they differ mainly in the morphology of the genital structures.

The genus includes only two known species: Tapinolobus albifasciatus , known from Argentina, Brazil and Ecuador, and Tapinolobus curvispina (= T. fasciatus ), known from Brazil, Paraguay and Peru.

Web links

Commons : Tapinolobus - collection of images, videos and audio files

T. apinolobus at Treehoppers
3D SEM images of individual humpback leaves, including Tapinolobus

Individual evidence

↑ AM Sakakibara: As espécies Brasileiras de "Stictolobus" Metcalf e descricao de um novo genero correlato (Homoptera) . In: Revista Brasileira de Biologia . tape 29 , no. 4 , 1969, p. 589-600 .
↑ DD Kopp & TR Yonke: A taxonomic review of the tribe Ceresini (Homoptera: Membracidae) . In: Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America . tape 11 , no. 2 , 1979, p. 1-97 .
↑ ^a ^b K. Schulze, M. Hess, K. Schönitzer: Treehoppers of Panguana (Peru), with additional faunistic remarks and 3D-SEM illustrations (Auchenorrhyncha, Membracoidea) . In: Communications of the Entomological Society . tape 106 , 2016, p. 39-64 .
↑ AM Sakakibara: The tribe Acutalini Fowler (Homoptera, Membracidae, Smiliinae): New Genera, new species and some nomenclatural changes . In: Revista Brasileira de Zoologia . tape 14 , no. 3 , 1997, p. 659-674 .
↑ McKamey, SH: Taxonomic Catalog of the Membracoidea (exclusive of leafhoppers) . In: Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. tape 60 , 1998, pp. 1-377 .

[Saka2-1] AM Sakakibara: As espécies Brasileiras de "Stictolobus" Metcalf e descricao de um novo genero correlato (Homoptera) . In: Revista Brasileira de Biologia . tape 29 , no. 4 , 1969, p. 589-600 .

[Kopp-2] DD Kopp & TR Yonke: A taxonomic review of the tribe Ceresini (Homoptera: Membracidae) . In: Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America . tape 11 , no. 2 , 1979, p. 1-97 .

[:0-3] K. Schulze, M. Hess, K. Schönitzer: Treehoppers of Panguana (Peru), with additional faunistic remarks and 3D-SEM illustrations (Auchenorrhyncha, Membracoidea) . In: Communications of the Entomological Society . tape 106 , 2016, p. 39-64 .

[Saka-4] AM Sakakibara: The tribe Acutalini Fowler (Homoptera, Membracidae, Smiliinae): New Genera, new species and some nomenclatural changes . In: Revista Brasileira de Zoologia . tape 14 , no. 3 , 1997, p. 659-674 .

[McKamey-5] McKamey, SH: Taxonomic Catalog of the Membracoidea (exclusive of leafhoppers) . In: Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. tape 60 , 1998, pp. 1-377 .