Fairmaire 1846b
McKamey 1998a
Sakakibara 1998a
Godoy, Miranda, and Nishida 2006a
McKamey and Wallner 2022b
Animalia → Arthropoda → Insecta → Pterygota → Hemiptera → Auchenorrhyncha → Cicadomorpha → Membracoidea → Membracidae → Smiliinae → Acutalini
Acutalis Fairmaire, 1846
Selected references
Taxon images
Acutalis
Acoustic calls
[listen] Acutalis (Membracidae: Smiliinae: Acutalini), male courtship call. Copyright © 2008, by Reginald B. Cocroft.
Distribution
Neotropical and Nearctic regions.
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Diagnostic characters
Pronotum without suprahumeral horns. Forewing with 1 m-cu crossvein, without s crossvein.
Immatures
McKamey and Wallner (2022b) described and illustrated the nymphs of Acutalis. The eggs are desposited within stems.
Ecology
Not attended by ants, the nymphs are remarkably cryptic on their host plants (McKamey and Wallner 2022b).
Behavior
The nymphs are solitary (McKamey and Wallner 2022b).
Prepared by
Matthew S. Wallace, Stuart H. McKamey, and Lewis L. Deitz, 12 January 2023.
