CICADOMORPHA
(a superfamily of planthoppers)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa
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ID refs
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Family 4 subtaxa 15 images 4 ident. refs
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Family 1 subtaxa 21 images
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Family 8 subtaxa 28 images 7 ident. refs
Family 2 subtaxa 2 ident. refs
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Family 1 subtaxa 6 images 1 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
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
Buckton, G.B. 1890 *** Monograph of the British Cicadae or Tettigidae ***(Superseded) 2 volumes, The Ray Society, London
() Le Quesne, W.J. 1965 Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha (excluding Deltocephalinae and Typhlocybinae) Handbooks for the Identification of Britsh Insects, Vol. II. Part 2a, 64pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Ossiannilsson, F. 1981 The Auchenorrhyncha (Homoptera) of Fennoscandia & Denmark, Volume 2: families Cicadidae, Cercopidae, Membracidae, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 7 part 2, 370pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd.

CICADOMORPHA (a superfamily of planthoppers) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 66 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CICADOMORPHA (a superfamily of planthoppers)
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