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Cercopidae

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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.[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]

Taxonomy

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Based on a 2023 molecular phylogenetic analysis, the Cercopidae senso stricto was divided into two monophyletic subfamilies, Cercopinae and Cosmoscartinae, each with a number of tribes.[3]

Anyllis leiala
Subfamily Cercopinae

Tribe Bandusiini

Tribe Callitetixini

Tribe Cercopini

Tribe Haematoscartini

Tribe Hemiaufidini

Tribe Locrisini

Tribe Rhinaulacini

Tribe incertae sedis

Subfamily Cosmoscartinae
Paraceropoides flavithorax

Tribe Considiini

Tribe Cosmoscartini

Tribe Phymatostethini

Tribe Suracartini

Tribe Trichoscartini

Tribe incertae sedis

Invalid genera

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Crispolon Jr et al. (2023) considered certain described genera as invalid without discussion and did not include them in the family as prescribed by their phylogeny.[3]

Fossil genera

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Dawsonites veter
1895 illustration

Taxa removed from Cercopidae

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Crispolon Jr. et al.s 2023 molocular phylogenetic analysis recommended removing the following genera from Cercopidae and transferring them to Aphrophoridae:[3]

Additionally they recommended the elevation of the subfamily Ischnorhininae, endemic to the Americas, to full family status as Ischnorhinidae. This was based on the closer phylogenetic ties to Machaerotidae then to subfamily Cercopinae found exclusively in Europe, Africa, and Asia, Australasia:[3]

Family Ischnorhinidae

Tribe Ischnorhinini

Tribe Neaenini

Tribe Tomaspini

References

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  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. ^ a b c d e 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.
  4. ^ a b Crispolon Jr, E. S.; Guilbert, E.; Yap, S. A.; Soulier‐Perkins, A. (2021). "New genus and new species of spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) from the Philippines". European Journal of Taxonomy (778): 90–135. doi:10.5852/ejt.2021.778.1571.
  5. ^ Crispolon Jr, E. S.; Yap, S. A.; Soulier‐Perkins, A. (2019). "Revision of the endemic Philippine Poeciloterpa Stål (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) with description of four new species". Zootaxa. 4608 (2): 291–328. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4608.2.6.
  6. ^ Xu, X.-T.; Szwedo, J.; Huang, D.-Y.; Deng, W.-Y.-D.; Obroślak, M.; Wu, F.-X.; Su, T. (2022). "A New Genus of Spittlebugs (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) from the Eocene of Central Tibetan Plateau". Insects. 13 (770): 770. doi:10.3390/insects13090770. PMC 9503688. PMID 36135471.