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Cercopidae

Cercopidae
Cercopis vulnerata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Cicadomorpha
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 the New World subfamily Ischnorhininae to full family status as Ischnorhinidae, leaving a monophyletic Old World 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

Cercopinae

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Tribe Bandusiini
Tribe Callitetixini
Tribe Cercopini
Tribe Haematoscartini
Tribe Hemiaufidini
Tribe Locrisini
Tribe Rhinaulacini
Tribe incertae sedis

Cosmoscartinae

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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]

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