Deitz 1975a
Deitz and Dietrich 1993a
Dietrich and Deitz 1993a
McKamey 1998a
Wallace and Deitz 2004a
Wallace 2010a
Animalia → Arthropoda → Insecta → Pterygota → Hemiptera → Auchenorrhyncha → Cicadomorpha → Membracoidea → Membracidae → Centrotinae
Centrodontini Deitz, 1975
Selected references
Overview
This small Nearctic tribe includes three genera known only from creosote bush in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Members of the subfamily show extreme adaption for crypsis on their host.
Taxon images
Centrodontini
Distribution
Nearctic region: northern Mexico and southwestern United States.
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Diagnostic characters
Pronotum with posterior process entirely concealing scutellum. Forewing opaque; venation reticulate; claval apex acuminate; apical limbus narrow. Tibiae foliaceous.
Chromosome numbers
Unknown.
Ecology
Members of this tribe are apparently not attended by ants.
Host plants
Known only from Larrea divarticata tridentata (DC) Felger and Lowe, creosote bush, family Zygophyllaceae.
Phylogenetic relationships
Based on morphology-based phylogenetic analyses, the tribe Centrodontini appears to the earliest lineage within the subfamily Centrotinae.
Taxonomic constituents
Centrodontus Goding, 1892 Goding, 1892
Multareis Goding, 1895 Goding, 1895
Multareoides Cook, 1953 Cook, 1953
Prepared by
Matthew S. Wallace and Lewis L. Deitz, 2 February 2023.
