Biology:Bocydium

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Short description: Genus of true bugs

Bocydium
Membracid - Bocydium globulare.jpg
Bocydium globulare
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Membracidae
Subfamily: Stegaspidinae
Genus: Bocydium
Latreille, 1829

Bocydium is a genus of insects in the treehopper family, Membracidae.[1] A 1999 classification identified 14 species in the genus, distributed around the Neotropics.[2]

Species

Species include:

  • Bocydium amischoglobum Sakakibara, 1981
  • Bocydium anisobullatum Sakakibara, 1981
  • Bocydium astilatum Richter, 1955
  • Bocydium bilobum Flórez-V, nov
  • Bocydium bulliferum Goding, 1930
  • Bocydium duoglobum Cryan, 1999
  • Bocydium germarii Guérin-Méneville, 1844
  • Bocydium globulare Fabricius, 1803
  • Bocydium globuliferum Pallas, 1766
  • Bocydium hadronotum Flórez-V, nov
  • Bocydium mae Flórez-V, nov
  • Bocydium nigrofasciatum Richter, 1955
  • Bocydium racemiferum Sakakibara, 1981
  • Bocydium rufiglobum Fairmaire, 1846
  • Bocydium sakakibarai Flórez-V, nov
  • Bocydium sanmiguelense Flórez-V, nov
  • Bocydium sexvesicatum Sakakibara, 1981
  • Bocydium sphaerulatum Sakakibara, 1981
  • Bocydium tatamaense Flórez-V, nov
  • Bocydium tintinnabuliferum Lesson, 1832

References

  1. Flórez-V, C. & Evangelista, O. 2017. New species in the treehopper genus Bocydium Latreille, with description of nymphal stages and observations on their natural history. pp. 22—57 in: Evangelista, O., Takiya, D.M. & Dietrich, C.H. (eds.) 2017.
  2. Cryan, Jason R. & Deitz, Lewis L. 1999. Review of the new world treehopper tribe Stegaspidini (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Stegaspidinae): I Bocydium Latreille, Lirania Stål, and Smerdalea Fowler. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. vol. 101. pp. 469–489.

Wikidata ☰ Q10431915 entry