A New Species of Telamona from California (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Smiliinae: Telamonini) and Key to Telamona Found in California

Abstract

Treehoppers are sap-sucking hemipteran insects that have been found worldwide except Antarctica. They are also absent from Madagascar, Greenland, and Iceland. Their diverse pronotal development has made them a favorite group for entomologists with many regional and habitat studies done in the United States (Dietrich et al. 1999, Deitz and Wallace 2012, Flynn 2012. Only six new species in the United States have been described in the last 50 years. Deitz and Wallace (2012) lists three species: