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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) » Delphacoidea

Superfamily Delphacoidea

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Works Cited
Delphacodes pseudoseminigra - Syndelphax pseudoseminigra Hopper - Stobaera pallida Planthopper - Megamelus palaetus Javesella pellucida? Nymph UDCC_NRI 00004036 - Megamelus lunatus - female UDCC_TCN 00118535 - Oecleus quadrilineatus - female UDCC_NRI 00003733 - Laccocera oregonensis - male
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 Delphacoidea
Explanation of Names
Delphacoidea Leach, 1815
Numbers
2 extant families, both in our area(1)
Cixiidae Spinola, 1839
Delphacidae Leach, 1815
Identification
Differ from Fulgoroidea in the form of the ovipositor (orthopteroid, ensiform) and in wing venation. A median ocellus is often (not always) present (absent in Fulgoroidea).
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 Solomon Hendrix on 8 January, 2023 - 7:44pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 30 March, 2024 - 5:28pm

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