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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

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Black Leaf-Leg - Phylloscelis atra Caliscelidae, dorsal - Bruchomorpha dorsata - male Resmbles Dictyobia permutata (=semivitrea), but... - Dyctidea intermedia Palm Flatid Planthopper - Ormenaria rufifascia - - Neaethus Fowlerium acutum (Doering) - Fowlerium acutum Green Hemipteran ID Request - Bruchomorpha Citrus Flatid - Metcalfa pruinosa
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
11 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
Kinnaridae Muir, 1925
Nogodinidae Melichar, 1898
Tropiduchidae Stål, 1866
extralimital families
Achilixiidae Muir, 1923
Eurybrachidae Stål, 1862
Gengidae Fennah, 1949
Hypochthonellidae China & Fennah, 1952
Meenoplidae Fieber, 1872
Ricaniidae Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843
Tettigometridae Germar, 1821
Remarks
Cixiidae and Delphacidae were recently split into a new superfamily, Delphacoidea, based on morphology (wing venation, form of ovipositor) and molecular evidence(1)
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.
Contributed by Richard Leung on 11 March, 2005 - 6:30pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, Graham M, v belov, antarctica
Last updated 30 June, 2024 - 1:56pm

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