Insecta - Hemiptera - Cercopidae
Alternative spelling: Cercopida
Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172
Parent taxon: Cercopoidea according to J. Szwedo 2019
See also Becker-Migdisova 1964, Cockerell 1921, Cryan and Urban 2012, Hamilton 1992, Statz 1950, Szwedo 2018, Tillyard 1918 and Zeuner 1941
Sister taxa: Aphrophoridae, Cercopionidae, Clastopteridae, Eoscartarellidae, Epipygidae, Procercopidae, Qibinius, Sinoalidae, Tettigometra debilis, Tychticoloides
Subtaxa: Allocercopis Berro Cercopinae Cercopites Cicadellites Eocercopidium Lithecphora Locrites Megacercopis Meloe hoernesi Nisocercopis Palecphora Parafitopteryx Prinecphora
Type: Cercopis
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection), Tanzania (2)
• Miocene of Croatia (6), Germany (4), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1)
• Oligocene of Brazil (1), France (1), Germany (1)
• Eocene of Canada (2: British Columbia), China (2), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Colorado, Wyoming)
• Paleocene to Eocene of China (1)
• Paleocene of Canada (1: Alberta), the United Kingdom (1)
• Cretaceous of Hong Kong (2), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 39 collections including 72 occurrences