''Smilia camelus'', also known as the camel treehopper, is a species of treehopper first
described by
Johan Christian Fabricius in 1803.
Habitat
''S. camelus'' is distributed across the eastern portion of Canada and the United States. It is commonly found it mixed hardwood forests.
It is abundant across the summer months.
Diet
It commonly feeds on
southern red oak
''Quercus falcata'', also called southern red oak, spanish oak, bottomland red oak or three-lobed red oak is an oak (part of the genus ''Quercus''). Native to the southeastern United States, it gets its name the "Spanish Oak" as these are the ar ...
,
turkey oak Turkey oak is a common name for several species of oaks and may refer to:
*''Quercus cerris'', native to southeastern Europe and Asia Minor
*''Quercus laevis
''Quercus laevis'', the turkey oak, is a member of the red oak group of oaks. It is nat ...
,
water oak,
post oak, and other species of the
''Quercus'' genus.
Description
Females are around long and males are .
It has a high pronotum, peaking in the head rather than the middle of the pronotum. The pronotum of the female is higher than the male.
References
Insects described in 1803
Insects of the United States
Insects of Canada
Smiliinae
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