Clastopteridae

Family of true bugs

Clastopteridae
Unidentified Clastoptera (Guelph, Canada)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Superfamily: Cercopoidea
Family: Clastopteridae
Dohrn, 1859
Clastoptera xanthocephala

Clastopteridae is a family of spittlebugs in the order Hemiptera. There are at least 10 genera and 100 described species in Clastopteridae.[1][2][3]

Genera

These 10 genera belong to the family Clastopteridae:

  • Allox Hamilton, 2014
  • Clastoptera Germar, 1839
  • Hemizygon Hamilton, 2014
  • Iba Schmidt, 1920
  • Parahindoloides Lallemand, 1951
  • Paropia Germar, 1833
  • Pseudoclastoptera Hamilton, 2014
  • Taphrotylus Hamilton, 2015
  • Zygon Hamilton, 2014
  • † Prisciba Poinar, 2014

References

  1. ^ "Clastopteridae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Clastopteridae". GBIF. Retrieved 23 May 2019.

Further reading

  • Bantock, T.; Botting, J. (2013). "British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera". Retrieved 23 May 2019.
  • Cryan, Jason R.; Svenson, Gavin J. (2010). "Family-level relationshipts of the spittlebugs and froghoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Cercopoidea)". Systematic Entomology. 35 (3): 393–415. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00520.x. ISSN 0307-6970.

External links

  • Media related to Clastopteridae at Wikimedia Commons
Taxon identifiers
Clastopteridae


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