Melizoderidae

Melizoderidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Superfamily:	Membracoidea
Family:	Melizoderidae; Deitz and Dietrich, 1993
Genera
	Melizoderes; Llanquihuea;

Melizoderidae is a family of treehoppers restricted to South America with only two genera, Melizoderes and Llanquihuea. The nymphs of melizoderids have the tergum of the 9th segment concealing the anal opening from above. The frontoclypeus (forehead) is convex and extended forward and below. The pronotum extends forward and above but not backward over the scutellum which is keeled posteriorly.^[1]

References

^ Deitz, Lewis L.; Dietrich, Christopher H. (1993). "Superfamily Membracoidea (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha). I. Introduction and revised classification with new family-group taxa". Systematic Entomology. 18 (4): 287–296. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1993.tb00667.x.

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[1] Deitz, Lewis L.; Dietrich, Christopher H. (1993). "Superfamily Membracoidea (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha). I. Introduction and revised classification with new family-group taxa". Systematic Entomology. 18 (4): 287–296. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1993.tb00667.x.

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