Cercopidae

Cercopidae
Cercopis vulnerata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Superfamily: Cercopoidea
Family: Cercopidae
Leach, 1815 [1]
Subfamilies

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Cercopidae are the largest family of Cercopoidea, a xylem-feeding insect group, commonly called froghoppers or spittlebugs.[2] They belong to the hemipteran suborder Auchenorrhyncha. A 2023 phylogenetic study of the family suggested the elevation of subfamily Ischnorhininae to full family status as Ischnorhinidae, leaving a monophyletic Cercopinae.[3]

  1. ^ "Cercopidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  2. ^ Carvalho C, Webb M (2005). "Cercopid Spittle Bugs of the New World (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cercopidae)". Pensoft Series Faunistica. 49: 280pp. ISBN 954-642-246-0.
  3. ^ Crispolon Jr, E. S.; Soulier‐Perkins, A.; Guilbert, E. (2023). "Molecular phylogeny of Cercopidae (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea)". Zoologica Scripta. 52 (5): 494–516. doi:10.1111/zsc.12597.