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Spittlebugs and Froghoppers
Cercopoidea
The froghoppers, or the superfamily Cercopoidea, are a group of Hemipteran insects, in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha. Adults are capable of jumping many times their height and length, giving the group their common name, but they are best known for their plant-sucking nymphs which encase themselves in foam in springtime.
7 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first
True Spittlebugs
familyAphrophoridae
Froghoppers
familyCercopidae
Ischnorhinidae
familyIschnorhinidae
Clastopterid Spittlebugs
familyClastopteridae
Tube Spittlebugs
familyMachaerotidae
Procercopidae
familyProcercopidae
Sinoalidae
familySinoalidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Cercopoidea in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 56194.