Fitch 1851a
Ball 1931f
Kopp and Yonke 1974a
McKamey 1998a
Wallace and Deitz 1999a
Godoy, Miranda, and Nishida 2006a
Wallace 2010a
Wallace 2011a
Wallace 2014a
McKamey and Wallace 2015a
Wallace 2015b
Wallace 2018a
Flynn 2023a
Animalia → Arthropoda → Insecta → Pterygota → Hemiptera → Auchenorrhyncha → Cicadomorpha → Membracoidea → Membracidae → Smiliinae → Telamonini
Telamona Fitch, 1851
Synonyms (and unplaced invalid names)
Selected references
Taxon history
Based on an examination of type specimens, Wallace (2015b) recently placed Helonica as a junior synonym of Telamona and made other taxonomic changes at the species level within this genus.
Taxon images
Telamona
Distribution
Neotropical and Nearctic regions. McKamey and Wallace (2015a) found that records of Telamona from South America are incorrect, either being assigned to an incorrect genus or representing Nearctic species.
Host plants
Aceraceae (Acer); Betulaceae (Carpinus, Ostrya); Caprifoliaceae (Sambucus); Cornaceae (Nyssa); Fabaceae (Robinia); Fagaceae (Castanea, Quercus); Hamamelidaceae (Hamamelis, Liquidambar); Juglandaceae (Carya, Juglans); Oleaceae (Fraxinus); Platanaceae (Platanus); Rhamnaceae (Ceanothus); Rosaceae (Crataegus, Prunus); Salicaceae (Populus, Salix); Smilacaceae (Smilax); Tiliaceae (Tilia, Ulmaceae (Celtis, Ul/em>); Vitaceae (Parthenocissus, Vitis) (Wallace 2014a).
Prepared by
_Matthew S. Wallace, Lewis L. Deitz, Olivia Evangelista, Mark J. Rothschild, and Christopher H. Dietrich, 18 August 2023.