Insects World

 Treehoppers

Scientific Classification 

Scientific Name - Ceresa taurina

Domain               - Eukaryota

Kingdom             - Animalia

Phylum                - Arthropoda

Class                    - Insecta

Order                  - Hemiptera

Family                - Membracidae

Genus                 - Ceresa

Species              - C.taurina

There are approximately 3200 described species of treehoppers worldwide, 257 of which live in North America. Currently, these insects are placed in three separate families : Melizoderidae, Aetalionidae and Membracidae. Membracidae is by far the largest and most widespread. Ceresa taurina is a half-winged insect of the family Membracidae. The body color is bright green, the thorny projection of the pronotum or pronotum points posteriorly and has two pointed projections on the front pointing forward. with some imagination this is reminiscent of the horns of a bull and it is from this that the scientific generic name taurina is due, which is derived from the Latin taurus, " bull ". The cicada has a strongly arched body shape with large wings and to other animals it looks strikingly like a young leaf with spines. Individuals treehoppers usually live for only a few months, but they belong to a lineage that is at least 40 millions years old. The oldest undoubted treehopper fossils are specimens of a few as yet undescribed species from amber found in the Dominican republic. Ceresa taurina feeds on various plants, sucking the juices up through the sucking proboscis or rostrum. The cicades live on plants used by humans as a source of food , such as raspberry, apple and pear, among other things.

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