1. A Key to Those of Quarantine Significance
Cicadellidae
A Key to Those of Quarantine Significance

2. Why are we interested? Transfer viruses Destructive Pests
Reproduce Quickly
Easily Overlooked
(small & move fast)

3. How the key looks

4. Common Cicadellidae Terms

5. Common Cicadellidae Terms

6. Terms Crown top of head Tumid swollen
Declivious sloping gradually downward
Sulcate grooved

7. Acknowledgements
Based on “Keys to the families of Cicadomorpha and subfamilies and tribes of Cicadellidae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)” by C. H. Dietrich in December 2005 Florida Entomologist.
Help and suggestions from Dr. Stuart H. McKamey.
Specimens borrowed from Museum of Entomology FSCA , NCSU Insect Collection, Smithsonian & Georgia Museum of Natural History

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