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

Family Issidae - Issid Planthoppers

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · See Also · Works Cited
upright-winged hopper - Danepteryx Definitely one for Andy. - Dictyssa obliqua ?? - Hysteropterum Thionia acuta Doering - Thionia acuta Thionia acuta Doering - Thionia acuta Mottled Issid Planthoppers - Lateral - Thionia elliptica ? - Thionia simplex Neaethus? - Neaethus
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 Issidae (Issid Planthoppers)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Acanaloniidae and Caliscelidae are sometimes lumped with this family; several sw. genera (mostly restricted to CA) have been treated among Nogodinidae(1) "...because the wings are lacy, but the wax tails [of the nymphs] that can be spread when alarmed are characteristic of Issidae." (Dr Hamilton); Nogodinidae is not represented in our area (Dr Hamilton, pers. comm. to =v= 28.x.2010)
Numbers
ca. 90 spp. in 20 genera in our area(2)
Identification
wings usually shorter than in Flatidae, and without the warty surface where the forewings meet over the back.
in nymphs, the wax filaments projecting from the rear are straight and bundled, not bushy
See Also
Flatidae, Acanaloniidae
Works Cited
1.3I Interactive Keys and Taxonomic Databases, by D.A. Dmitriev
2.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 25 April, 2005 - 1:50am
Additional contributions by cotinis, john and jane balaban, Lynette, ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 16 December, 2010 - 9:51pm

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