Creão-Duarte 1997a
Flórez-V., Wolff, and Cardona-Duque 2015a
Camacho, Flórez-V., and Evangelista 2017a
Animalia → Arthropoda → Insecta → Pterygota → Hemiptera → Auchenorrhyncha → Cicadomorpha → Membracoidea → Membracidae → Membracinae → Hoplophorionini
Sakakibarella Creão-Duarte, 1997
Selected references
Overview
Camacho, Flórez-V., and Evangelista (2017a) provided a key to the 7 recognized species.
Taxon images
Sakakibarella
1.Sakakibarella elongata
2.Sakakibarella seminigra
Distribution
Neotropical region.
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Diagnostic characters
Head about half as wide as distance between humeral angles; maxillary plates projecting laterally, reaching procoxae; pronotum with anterodorsal process in females (absent in some males), posterior process reaching forewing apex; hind wing with r-m crossvein, cell R3 larger than R5 (Flórez-V., Wolff, and Cardona-Duque 2015a).
Host plants
Plants in the families Adoxaceae and Sabiaceae are recorded as hosts (Camacho, Flórez-V., and Evangelista 2017a).
Behavior
Subsocial behavior in the form of maternal care of eggs and nymphs is reported in this genus (Camacho, Flórez-V., and Evangelista 2017a).
Prepared by
Lewis L. Deitz and Mark J. Rothschild, 7 July 2017.
