Callitettix

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Callitettix
Callitettix versicolor
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cercopidae
Genus: Callitettix
Stål, 1865

Callitettix[1] is a genus of bugs in the family Cercopidae ("froghoppers") in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha and the monotypic subfamily Callitettixinae. The recorded distribution for species is in mainland Asia: from India to southern China and Indochina.[2]

Species[edit]

BioLib includes the following species:[3]

  1. Callitettix biformis Lallemand, 1927
  2. Callitettix braconoides (Walker, 1858)type species[4]
  3. Callitettix carinifrons Noualhier, 1904
  4. Callitettix contiguus (Walker, 1851)
  5. Callitettix coomani Lallemand, 1946
  6. Callitettix costalis Lallemand, 1933
  7. Callitettix proximus (Walker, 1851)
  8. Callitettix ruficeps Melichar, 1915
  9. Callitettix versicolor (Fabricius, 1794)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Stål C (1865) Ofvers. VetenskAkad. Förh. Stockholm 22, 152.
  2. ^ GBIF: Callitettix Stål, 1865 (retrieved 22 August 2021)
  3. ^ BioLib.cz: Callitettix Stål, 1865 (retrieved 20 August 2021)
  4. ^ Liang, Ai-Ping (2020). "A new structure on the frons of male adults of the Asian rice spittlebug Callitettix versicolor (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cercopidae)". Zootaxa. 4801 (3): 591–599. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4801.3.12. PMID 33056653. S2CID 222821718.

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