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Genus Platycotis

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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 Cicadoidea
Family Membracidae (Treehoppers)
Genus Platycotis
Numbers
Three Nearctic species in the genus.
Contributed by Stephen Cresswell on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Last updated 14 October, 2004 - 6:24pm

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