CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1802
(leafhoppers)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
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Genus 1 subtaxa 1 ident. refs
Female (Click to open)
Subfamily 2 subtaxa 19 images
Subfamily 2 ident. refs
Male (Click to open)
Genus 1 subtaxa 6 images
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Subfamily 1 subtaxa 3 images
Subfamily 2 subtaxa 3 ident. refs
Genus 2 subtaxa 2 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyCICADELLIDAE (leafhoppers)
SuperfamilyCICADOMORPHA (a superfamily of planthoppers)
SuborderAUCHENORRHYNCHA (a suborder of bugs)
OrderHEMIPTERA (bugs)
Division Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
della Giustina, W. 1989 Homoptères Cicadellidae (supplément) Faune de France, Faune No 73, 348pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel

CICADELLIDAE (leafhoppers) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CICADELLIDAE (leafhoppers)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 61 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CICADELLIDAE (leafhoppers)
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