Antonae

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Antonae
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Antonae guttipes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Membracidae
Tribe: Ceresini
Genus: Antonae
Stål, 1867
Type species
Antonae tigrina
Fairmaire, 1846
Synonyms [1]
  • TumayauaSchmidt, 1906

Antonae is a genus of treehoppers in the family Membracidae. [1] [2] [3]

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Description

Members of Antonae are about 6.9 to 10.2 millimetres in size, usually yellowish in color, often with black spots or black with yellow spots. [4] The Pronotum is divided by a constriction. The frontal part is rounded and often has lateral spines. The rear part is rounded and relatively thick. Similarly humpbacked Membracidae belong to e.g. Ilithucia , Parantonae and Lallemandia . [5] The genus Illithucia has at times been regarded as a synonym of Antonae (e.g. in the catalog of Membracidae [6] ), but more recently is again considered a separate genus, [7] and several species have been exchanged between them.

Distribution

The genus is found in the Neotropics, in northern South America, Central America and Mexico. A relatively large number of species are known from Colombia. [8] Only recently, a species from Brazil was described for the first time. [9] Some species occur at relatively high altitudes (3000 to 4000 m) where they are associated with plants of the genus Espeletia. [5] However, others also occur in lowland rainforests of the lowlands (e.g. Antonae guttipes). [10]

Ecology

The adults are mostly solitary, sometimes nymphs with adults have been found in groups under leaves or on the tops of plants. The larvae are very well camouflaged with the hairy coat of the plants. They live almost exclusively on plants of the families Asteraceae and Solanaceae, where they feed on phloem. [8]

Species

These 14 species belong to the genus Antonae: [1]

Taxonomy

Other selected affiliated species:

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Antonae". Dmitriev, D.A. et al. (2022 onward) World Auchenorrhyncha Database. TaxonPages. Retrieved 17 Jul 2023.
  2. ↑ "Antonae Stål, 1867". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 17 Jul 2023.
  3. ↑ "Genus Antonae". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  4. ↑ Kopp, D.D.; Yonke, T.R. (1979). "A Taxonomic Review of the Tribe Ceresini (Homoptera: Membracidae)". Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America. 11 (2): 1–98.
  5. 1 2 Godoy, C.; Miranda, X.; Nishida, K. (2006). Treehoppers of tropical America. Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica: Instituto national de Biodiversidad. p. 352. ISBN   9968-927-10-4.
  6. ↑ McKamey, S.H. (1998). "Taxonomic Catalogue of the Membracoidea (exclusive of Leafhoppers)". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 60: 1–377.
  7. ↑ Sakakibara, A.M. (2002). "Revalidation of Ilithucia Stal, and descriptions of new species (Homoptera, Membracidae, Smiliinae)". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 19 (1): 189–200. doi: 10.1590/S0101-81752002000100017 .
  8. 1 2 Florez-V., C.; Wolff, M.I.; Cardona-Duque, J. (2015). "Contribution to the taxonomy of the family membracinae Rafinesque (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) in Colombia". Zootaxa. 3910: 1–261. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3910.1.1. PMID   25661431.
  9. ↑ Sakakibara, A.M.; Lencioni-Nieto, F. (2009). "Duas espécies novas de mambracídeos (Hemipera, Maembracidae) da Mata Atlantica do Estado de Sao paula, Brasil". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 49 (16): 191–196. doi: 10.1590/S0031-10492009001600001 .
  10. ↑ Schulze, K.; Heß, M.; Schönitzer, K. (2016). "Treehoppers of Panguana (Peru), with additional faunistic remarks and 3D-SEM illustrations (Auchenorrhyncha, Membracidae)". Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft. 106: 39–64.
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