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Onega Bracteata
''Onega bracteata'' is a species of leafhoppers A leafhopper is the common name for any species from the family Cicadellidae. These minute insects, colloquially known as hoppers, are plant feeders that suck plant sap from grass, shrubs, or trees. Their hind legs are modified for jumping, and a ... in the family Cicadellidae. It is native to Andean South America. Description ''Onega bracteata'' is a rather large and compact sharpshooter with a length from 13.8 to 15 mm. Females are usually slightly larger than males. The pronotum is wider than the head. The veination is distinct but veins are not elevated. Distribution ''Onega bracteata'' has been described from Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Bolivia where it was found in Andean locations 2000 m or more above sea level. References Cicadellini Hemiptera of South America Insects described in 1977 {{Cicadellinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Allan Young
David Allan Young, Jr. (May 26, 1915, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania - June 8, 1991, Louisville, Kentucky), was an American entomologist who specialized in the taxonomy of the Cicadellidae and authored a comprehensive treatment of the family with numerous genera and species described and named by him. This work in three parts ''Taxonomic Study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae)'' covered 292 genera. Life and work David Young's father was a traveling salesman and he attended school in western Pennsylvania and high school in Louisville. He studied at the University of Louisville and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1939. He then taught science at the Louisville Public School System and later studied entomology at the Cornell University and obtained a Master of Science in 1942. During the second world war, he joined the US Army as a private and was honorably discharged as a first lieutenant in 1945. He then became an instructor in the Biology department at the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leafhoppers
A leafhopper is the common name for any species from the family Cicadellidae. These minute insects, colloquially known as hoppers, are plant feeders that suck plant sap from grass, shrubs, or trees. Their hind legs are modified for jumping, and are covered with hairs that facilitate the spreading of a secretion over their bodies that acts as a water repellent and carrier of pheromones. They undergo a partial metamorphosis, and have various host associations, varying from very generalized to very specific. Some species have a cosmopolitan distribution, or occur throughout the temperate and tropical regions. Some are pests or vectors of plant viruses and phytoplasmas. The family is distributed all over the world, and constitutes the second-largest hemipteran family, with at least 20,000 described species. They belong to a lineage traditionally treated as infraorder Cicadomorpha in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, but as the latter taxon is probably not monophyletic, many m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andean
The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountains (; ) are the List of mountain ranges#Mountain ranges by length, longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range is long, wide (widest between 18th parallel south, 18°S – 20th parallel south, 20°S latitude), and has an average height of about . The Andes extend from north to south through seven South American countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. Along their length, the Andes are split into several ranges, separated by intermediate depression (geology), depressions. The Andes are the location of several high plateaus—some of which host major cities such as Quito, Bogotá, Cali, Arequipa, Medellín, Bucaramanga, Sucre, Mérida, Mérida, Mérida, El Alto and La Paz. The Altiplano, Altiplano plateau is the world's second-highest after the Tibetan plateau. These ranges are in turn grouped into three major di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pronotum
The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the pronotum (dorsal), the prosternum (ventral), and the propleuron (lateral) on each side. The prothorax never bears wings in extant insects (except in some cases of atavism), though some fossil groups possessed wing-like projections. All adult insects possess legs on the prothorax, though in a few groups (e.g., the butterfly family Nymphalidae) the forelegs are greatly reduced. In many groups of insects, the pronotum is reduced in size, but in a few it is hypertrophied, such as in all beetles (Coleoptera). In most treehoppers (family Membracidae, order Hemiptera), the pronotum is expanded into often fantastic shapes that enhance their camouflage or mimicry. Similarly, in the Tetrigidae, the pronotum is extended backward to cover the flight wings, supplanting the function of the tegmina. See also *Glossary of entomolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cicadellini
Cicadellini is a tribe of leafhoppers in the family Cicadellidae. There are over 300 genera and several thousand described species in Cicadellini. Selected Genera * '' Agrosoma'' Medler, 1960 * '' Amblyscarta'' Stål, 1869 * '' Apogonalia'' Evans, 1947 * '' Bothrogonia'' Melichar, 1926 * ''Cicadella'' Latreille, 1817 * '' Ciminius'' Metcalf & Bruner, 1936 * ''Cofana'' Melichar, 1926 * '' Decua'' Oman, 1949 * '' Draeculacephala'' Ball, 1901 * '' Erythrogonia'' Melichar, 1926 * ''Graphocephala'' Van Duzee, 1916 * ''Helochara'' Fitch, 1851 * ''Hortensia'' Metcalf & Bruner, 1936 * '' Lissoscarta'' Stål, 1869 * '' Onega'' Distant, 1908 * '' Sibovia'' China, 1927 * ''Tylozygus'' Fieber, 1865 * ''Xyphon ''Xyphon'' is a genus of leafhoppers in the family Cicadellidae. There are at least seven described species in ''Xyphon''. Species * '' Xyphon flaviceps'' (Riley, 1880) (yellow-headed leafhopper) * '' Xyphon fulgidum'' (Nottingham, 1932) * '' X ...'' Hamilton, 1985 References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemiptera Of South America
Hemiptera (; ) is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs. They range in size from to around , and share a common arrangement of piercing-sucking mouthparts. The name "true bugs" is often limited to the suborder Heteroptera. Entomologists reserve the term ''bug'' for Hemiptera or Heteroptera,Gilbert Waldbauer. ''The Handy Bug Answer Book.'' Visible Ink, 1998p. 1. which does not include other arthropods or insects of other orders such as ants, bees, beetles, or butterflies. In some variations of English, all terrestrial arthropods (including non-insect arachnids, and myriapods) also fall under the colloquial understanding of ''bug''. Many insects with "bug" in their common name, especially in American English, belong to other orders; for example, the lovebug is a fly and the Maybug and ladybug are beetles. The term is also occas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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