Bocydium is a genus of insects in the treehopper family, Membracidae.[1] A 1999 classification identified 14 species in the genus, distributed around the Neotropics.[2]

Bocydium
Bocydium globulare
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Membracidae
Subfamily: Stegaspidinae
Genus: Bocydium
Latreille, 1829

Species

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References

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  1. ^ Flórez-V, C. & Evangelista, O. 2017. New species in the treehopper genus Bocydium Latreille, with description of nymphal stages and observations on their natural history. pp. 22—57 in: Evangelista, O., Takiya, D.M. & Dietrich, C.H. (eds.) 2017.
  2. ^ Cryan, Jason R. & Deitz, Lewis L. 1999. Review of the new world treehopper tribe Stegaspidini (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Stegaspidinae): I Bocydium Latreille, Lirania Stål, and Smerdalea Fowler. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. vol. 101. pp. 469–489.