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

Family Achilidae - Achilid Planthoppers

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gray and brown planthopper? - Synecdoche impunctata bug - Synecdoche nemoralis Hopper 39 Planthopper nymph - Epiptera floridae Synecdoche ZH3Z3305 Planthopper on hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiensis) - Synecdoche impunctata Planthopper Fleahopper - Opsiplanon luella
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 Achilidae (Achilid Planthoppers)
Numbers
53 species in 8 genera in North America (Nearctica.com)
Internet References
species list of Achilidae in North America (Nearctica.com)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 21 January, 2005 - 4:15pm
Additional contributions by ceiseman
Last updated 20 October, 2009 - 10:40pm

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