Dietrich and Deitz 1991a
McKamey 1998a
Godoy, Miranda, and Nishida 2006a
Animalia → Arthropoda → Insecta → Pterygota → Hemiptera → Auchenorrhyncha → Cicadomorpha → Membracoidea → Membracidae → Membracinae → Aconophorini
Calloconophora Dietrich in Dietrich and Deitz, 1991
Selected references
Overview
Calloconophora includes 16 species (Dietrich and Deitz 1991a). Members of the genus are subsocial, but apparently not ant-mutualistic, however, C. argentipennis is attended by meliponine bees.
Taxon images
Calloconophora
Acoustic calls
[listen] Calloconophora nymphs (Membracidae: Membracinae: Aconophorini), discovery signal recruiting siblings to a new feeding site. Copyright © 2011, by Reginald B. Cocroft.
Distribution
Neotropical region.
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Prepared by
Mark J. Rothschild and Lewis L. Deitz, 7 February 2014.
