''Bilimekia'' is a genus of treehoppers belonging to the subfamily

Smiliinae Smiliinae is a subfamily of treehoppers in the family Membracidae. These are bugs and include about 100 genera (and 4 unorganized genera) in 10 tribes, most which are found in the Americas, with the exception of the tribe Ceresini which has Pa ...

. Its species are found in Mexico.

Appearance

Species of ''Bilimekia'' have a yellow

pronotum The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the pronotum (dorsal), the prosternum (ventral), and the propleuron (lateral) on e ...

. The pronotum stretches past the head horizontally, a characteristic of most treehoppers of the tribe Polyglyptini.

Species

Bilimekia contains 3 species: * ''Bilimekia broomfieldi'' Hinton, 1977 * ''Bilimekia minor'' Fowler, 1895 * ''Bilimekia styliformis'' Fowler, 1895

References

Smiliinae Auchenorrhyncha genera Hemiptera of North America Taxa described in 1895 {{Auchenorrhyncha-stub