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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoromorpha) » Fulgoroidea

Superfamily Fulgoroidea

Caliscelidae, frontal - Bruchomorpha tristis

Mistharnophantia sonorana ? - Mistharnophantia

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (True Hoppers)

Infraorder Fulgoromorpha (Planthoppers)

Superfamily Fulgoroidea

Explanation of Names

see Fulgora

Numbers

10 families in our area

Acanaloniidae Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Achilidae Stål, 1866

Caliscelidae Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Derbidae Spinola, 1839

Dictyopharidae Spinola, 1839

Flatidae Spinola, 1839

Fulgoridae Latreille, 1807

Issidae Spinola, 1839

Nogodinidae Melichar, 1898

Tropiduchidae Stål, 1866

extralimital families

Achilixiidae Muir, 1923

Eurybrachidae Stål, 1862

Gengidae Fennah, 1949

Hypochthonellidae China & Fennah, 1952

Ricaniidae Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Tettigometridae Germar, 1821

Identification

Differentiated from Delphacoidea and Meenoploidea by the lack of a median ocellus.

Remarks

Cixiidae and Delphacidae were recently split into a new superfamily, Delphacoidea, based on morphology (wing venation, form of ovipositor) and molecular evidence(1)

Kinnaridae was recently split into a new superfamily, Meenoploidea, based on morphology and molecular evidence(2). Our Kinnaridae fauna were transferred to Meenoplidae in this work.

Internet References

Fulgoroidea of Texas (Quinn 2017)

Works Cited

1.	Toward a new classification of planthoppers Hemiptera Fulgoromorpha: 1. What Do Fulgoridiidae Really Cover? Bourgoin T., Szwedo J. 2022. Ann. Zool. 72: 951-962.

2.	Phylogenomic insights into the relationship and the evolutionary history of planthoppers (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) Deng, Stroiński, Szwedo, Ghanavi, Yapar, Franco, Prus-Frankowska, Michalik, Wahlberg, and Łukasik. 2024. Systematic Entomology.

Contributed by Richard Leung on 11 March, 2005 - 6:30pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, Graham M, v belov, antarctica
Last updated 5 January, 2025 - 4:25pm

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Superfamily Fulgoroidea

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Classification

Explanation of Names

Numbers

Identification

Remarks

Internet References

Works Cited