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Superfamily Meenoploidea

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 Meenoploidea

Explanation of Names

Meenoploidea Fieber, 1872

Numbers

1 genus in 1 family in our area, 2 families in total.

Kinnaridae Muir, 1925: Eastern Palearctic

Meenoplidae Fieber, 1872: worldwide tropical and temperate regions

Identification

Small planthoppers. Easily differentiated from Fulgoroidea by the presence of a median ocellus. Differentiated from Delphacoidea in the absence of lateral spines on the metatibia and the presence of wax gland pores on abdominal tergites 6–8 in female adults. Other differences are primarily in the wing venation and male and female genitalia.(1)

Remarks

Our taxa were placed in the family Kinnaridae, but following the reclassification of Deng et al. (2024)(1), they are now placed in Meenoplidae.

Works Cited

1.	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 Solomon V. Hendrix on 5 January, 2025 - 3:50pm

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