Insecta - Hemiptera - Aphrophoridae
Alternative spellings: Aphrophorides, Aphrophorinae
Full reference: C. J. B. Amyot and J. G. Audinet-Serville. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères 1-676
Parent taxon: Cercopoidea according to O. Borodin and O. Borodina 2021
See also Becker-Migdisova 1964, Cryan and Urban 2012, Scudder 1878, Szwedo 2018 and Szwedo 2019
Sister taxa: Cercopidae, Cercopionidae, Clastopteridae, Eoscartarellidae, Epipygidae, Procercopidae, Qibinius, Sinoalidae, Tettigometra debilis, Tychticoloides
Subtaxa: Aphrophorinae Blenniphora Luisphantyelus Natajephora Palaeoptysma Palaphrodes Petrolystra Ptysmaphora
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of Croatia (3 collections), Germany (4), the Russian Federation (6), Spain (4)
• Oligocene of France (11), Germany (1), Switzerland (1)
• Eocene of Canada (2: British Columbia), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (3: Colorado)
• Paleocene of France (1)
Total: 40 collections including 65 occurrences