Cicadoidea
D. G. Pfeiffer
Department of Entomology
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA 24061-0319
Updated 25 March 1999
I. Families of Cicadoidea:
- Cicadidae - Cicadas, e.g. periodical cicada
- large, 1-2 inches
- forewing membranous
- 3 ocelli
- non-jumping
- Membracidae - Treehoppers
- small, less than 12 mm
- jumping
- pronotum elongated back over abdomen
- Cercopidae - Spittlebugs and froghoppers
- also small, less than 12 mm
- pronotum doesn't extend backward
- 1-2 stout spines on hind tibiae
- Cicadellidae - Leafhoppers
- body more slender, tapering than cercopids
- hind tibiae with 1 or more rows of small spines
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