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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Free-living Hemipterans (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoroidea) » Flatid Planthoppers (Flatidae)

Family Flatidae - Flatid Planthoppers

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Planthopper - Metcalfa pruinosa Flatid Planthopper - Anormenis chloris Flatoidinus acutus Planthopper nymphs - Metcalfa pruinosa Unknown bug - Ormenoides venusta leafhopper - Metcalfa pruinosa Citrus Flatid Planthopper - Metcalfa pruinosa Hopper ID Request - Metcalfa pruinosa
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Free-living Hemipterans)
Superfamily Fulgoroidea (Planthoppers)
Family Flatidae (Flatid Planthoppers)
Identification
Nymphs: "wax filaments are bushy, not straight and forming bundles like watercolor paintbrushes, as they do in Issidae." [comment by Andy Hamilton]
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Issidae
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, ceiseman
Last updated 10 October, 2009 - 10:30am

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