Talk:Buffalo treehopper

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Did you know... that the Buffalo Treehopper (pictured) is an insect named for its resemblance to the American Bison?

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If per article there is a sole common name, why it wasn't titled Buffalo Treehopper? --85.132.14.38 (talk) 20:01, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think in general unless the common name is also more or less a household name (i.e. "African Elephant", "Rainbow Trout", etc.) the scientific name is always prefered. Although the sourses I encountered only indicated this one common name, there was nothing that made me sure that it is never called anything else nor that the same common name is never applied to another species. The binomial names are just really useful. Maybe someone over at the Anthropod project will opine differently on this. - House of Scandal (talk) 20:07, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For example, it wouldn't surprise me if in some literature another member of this genus was also called "Buffalo Treehopper" or even if the genus was refered to as "the Buffalo Treehoppers". - House of Scandal (talk) 20:11, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That is exactly right. In fact, it's not just the genus of Stictocephala that's called Buffalo Treehoppers, it's the entire tribe of Ceresini. This tribe is unusual among treehoppers in that it contains several species that are difficult to tell apart without looking at minute characters such as male genitalia. CeraFisher (talk) 13:53, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reference reliability

I'm concerned about some of the information presented on this page because it references a school website which has since been taken down. I replaced that broken link with an internet archive link, but there should be better references for this than a school project from the mid 2000s. I'm more than willing to work on it (and have fixed some misinterpretations in the text) but I'm a little bit new to Wikipedia editing. So if this is on someone's watchlist, I guess get in touch with me on my talk page so that I can make sure I'm handling things correctly. CeraFisher (talk) 13:56, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]