Biology:Melizoderidae

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Short description: Family of tree-hoppers from South America

Melizoderidae
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Superfamily: Membracoidea
Family: Melizoderidae
Deitz and Dietrich, 1993
Genera
  • Melizoderes
  • Llanquihuea

Melizoderidae is a family of tree-hoppers 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. The pronotum extends forward and above but not backward over the scutellum which is keeled posteriorly.[1]

References

  1. Deitz, Lewis L.; Dietrich, Christopher H. (1993). "Superfamily Membracoidea (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha). I. Introduction and revised classification with new family-group taxa". Systematic Entomology 18 (4): 287–296. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1993.tb00667.x. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1946888 entry