Telamona monticola

Telamona monticola · Order: Hemiptera · Family: Membracidae

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Telamona monticola
Photo: Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY

Telamona monticola lives on oak trees. Its immature stages develop over about eight weeks.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

You will usually find this bug on oak trees.

Source: Wikipedia

Life cycle

The nymphs take roughly eight weeks to become adults.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 37 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Texas, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Illinois, Connecticut, Maryland, Ohio, New Jersey.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in Canada. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Telamona monticola photo 2
Photo: Robert Webster, CC BY-SA
Telamona monticola photo 3
Photo: Brodie Cass Talbott, CC BY
Telamona monticola photo 4
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0
Telamona monticola photo 5
Photo: David Anderson, CC BY

Same family (Membracidae)

Keeled TreehopperKeeled TreehopperEntylia carinataBuffalo TreehopperBuffalo TreehopperStictocephala bisoniaDamages trees, gardens or cropsHorned TreehopperHorned TreehopperCentrotus cornutusOak TreehopperOak TreehopperPlatycotis vittataMexican TreehopperMexican TreehopperMembracis mexicanaDamages trees, gardens or cropsThree-cornered Alfalfa HopperThree-cornered Alfalfa HopperSpissistilus festinusDamages trees, gardens or crops

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telamona_monticola

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-24.

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