Kirkaldy 1904c
McKamey 1998a
Sakakibara 1998a
McKamey and Wallner 2022b
Animalia → Arthropoda → Insecta → Pterygota → Hemiptera → Auchenorrhyncha → Cicadomorpha → Membracoidea → Membracidae → Smiliinae → Acutalini
Thrasymedes Kirkaldy, 1904
Synonyms (and unplaced invalid names)
Phacusa Stål, 1864
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Taxon images
Distribution
Diagnostic characters
Pronotum without suprahumeral horns. Forewings with 1 m-cu crossvein and s crossvein.
Immatures
McKamey and Wallner (2022b) described and illustrated the nymphs. The eggs are deposited 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
Lewis L. Deitz, Stuart H. McKamey, Olivia Evangelista, and Mark J. Rothschild, 12 January 2023.