''Odontoptera'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
planthopper
A planthopper is any insect in the infraorder Fulgoromorpha, in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, a group exceeding 12,500 described species worldwide. The name comes from their remarkable resemblance to leaves and other plants of their environment ...
s in the family
Fulgoridae
The family Fulgoridae is a large group of hemipteran insects, especially abundant and diverse in the tropics, containing over 125 genera worldwide. They are mostly of moderate to large size, many with a superficial resemblance to Lepidoptera due t ...
and tribe
Fulgorini: from Central and South America.
[Hemiptera Databases: Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web (FLOW): ''Odontoptera'' (retrieved 30/08/2023)]
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Species
The following species are listed:[NCBI Taxonomy browser: Fulgoridae (retrieved 14 November 2017)]
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# '' Odontoptera carrenoi'' (Signoret, 1849)
# '' Odontoptera spectabilis'' (Carreno, 1841), (type species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
)
# '' Odontoptera toulgoeti'' (Bourgoin & O'Brien, 1994)
Gallery
Odontoptera carrenoi MHNTvol.jpg, ''O. carrenoi'' (Toulouse Museum)
Odontoptera spectabilis, paraguay 2016-02-23-19.49.jpg, ''O. spectabilis'', Paraguay
References
External links
Images at iNaturalist
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Fulgorinae