Spartina-patens

Guides

• Tumidagena

  Tumidagena is a genus of small, flightless delphacid planthoppers comprising at least three described species. The best-studied species, T. minuta, is a specialist herbivore of the salt marsh grass Spartina patens in eastern North America. Despite being predominantly flightless (>99% of adults), populations exhibit high gene flow and weak genetic differentiation over distances exceeding 400 km, suggesting mechanisms other than adult flight maintain connectivity.

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