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Cixiidae

Freitas, Énio;Aguín-Pombo, Dora

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The Cixiidae are a family of fulgoroid insects, one of many families commonly known as planthoppers, distributed worldwide and comprising more than 2,000 species from over 150 genera.

Species

cixid planthoppers

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderHemiptera
  5. FamilyCixiidae
Observations recorded99,352

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
2,885
With media
908
Family
Cixiidae
Collections
NHMUK, UAM, VPI, UMNH, SDNHM, NAUF
Recorded in
United Kingdom, United States

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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • Taxonomy
  • Description
  • Fossil record
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

The Cixiidae are a family of fulgoroid insects, one of many families commonly known as planthoppers, distributed worldwide and comprising more than 2,000 species from over 150 genera.

==Taxonomy== Genera have been placed in up to three subfamilies, including the Cixiinae, of which sixteen tribes are currently accepted. Fulgoromorpha Lists on the Web includes a monotypic tribe and one genus incertae sedis: Borysthenini Emeljanov, 1989 - Africa, Asia Borysthenes Stål, 1866 Bothriocerinae Muir, 1923 - Americas Chlorodus Johnson & Ledig, 1918 tribe Bothriocerini Muir, 1923 Bothriobaltia† Szwedo, 2002 Bothrioceretta Caldwell, 1950 Delwa† Szwedo, 2019 Klugga† Szwedo, 2019 Liwakka† Szwedo, 2019

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cixiidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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