Dichoptera

Dichoptera is a genus of plant-hoppers found in tropical Asia. They were formerly placed in the family Dictyopharidae.[1]

Head profile

Dichoptera
Dichoptera hyalinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Family: Fulgoridae
Genus: Dichoptera
Spinola, 1839
Type species
Dichoptera hyalinata
(Fabricius, 1781)
Species
  • D. conspersa Schmidt, 1911
  • D. guttulosa Stål, 1870
  • D. hampsoni Distant, 1892
  • D. hyalinata (Fabricius, 1781)
  • D. lurida (Walker, 1858)
  • D. maculata Schmidt, 1911
  • D. nasuta Distant, 1892
  • D. picticeps Stål, 1870
  • D. signifrons Stål, 1870
  • D. similis Schumacher, 1915
  • D. stigivatta Walker, 1858

They have large and stout bodies with long membranous forewings. The head is short and may have a long process. There are 11 species in the genus.[2][3]

Often found on the bark of Ficus trees, they are tended by ants and sometimes parasitized by Dryinidae.[4]

References
  1. Emeljanov A (1979) The problem of differentiation of the families Fulgoridae and Dictyopharidae. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 82:3-22.
  2. Song, Z; Bourgoin, T; Liang, A (2011). "Review of the Oriental Monotypic Genus Pibrocha Kirkaldy (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Fulgoridae, Dorysarthrinae)". ZooKeys. 132: 1–13. doi:10.3897/zookeys.132.1319. PMC 3208430. PMID 22140330.
  3. Distant, W.L. (1906). Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Volume III. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 237–240.
  4. Swaminathan, S. & T.N. Ananthakrishnan (1984). "Population trends of some monophagous and polyphagous fulgoroides in relation to biotic and abiotic factors (Insecta: Homoptera)". Proceedings: Animal Sciences. 93 (1): 1–8. doi:10.1007/bf03186220.


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