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Cicadellae (leafhopper)

Taxonomy

Cicadellae was named by Latreille (1825). It is extant. Its type is Cicadella.

It was reranked as the family Cicadellidae by Cockerell (1921), Tillyard (1923), Becker-Migdisova (1964), Shcherbakov (1986), Shcherbakov (1988), Hamilton (1992), Cong et al. (1996), Archibald and Mathewes (2000), Szwedo (2005), Cryan and Urban (2012), Dietrich and Gonçalves (2014), Dietrich et al. (2017), Wang et al. (2018), Szwedo (2018), Dietrich and Perkovsky (2019), Szwedo (2019), Dietrich and Perkovsky (2020), Dietrich et al. (2021), Gębicki et al. (2023).

It was assigned to Homoptera by Cockerell (1921); to Homoptera by Tillyard (1923), Cong et al. (1996); to Cercopoidea by Archibald and Mathewes (2000); to Cicadelloidea by Becker-Migdisova (1964), Shcherbakov (1986), Shcherbakov (1988), Szwedo (2018), Szwedo (2019); and to Membracoidea by Hamilton (1992), Szwedo (2005), Cryan and Urban (2012), Dietrich and Gonçalves (2014), Dietrich et al. (2017), Wang et al. (2018), Dietrich and Perkovsky (2019), Dietrich and Perkovsky (2020), Dietrich et al. (2021), Gębicki et al. (2023).

Synonyms

Jascopidae was named by Hamilton (1971). Its type is Jascopus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Cicadellidae by Menon et al. (2007).

It was assigned to Homoptera by Hamilton (1971); and to Membracoidea by Hamilton (1990), Hamilton (1992).
Jassidae was named by Amyot and Audinet-Serville (1843). It is extant. Its type is Iassus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Cicadellidae by Szwedo et al. (2004).

It was assigned to Auchenorhyncha by Handlirsch (1906); to Hemiptera by Tillyard (1916); to Homoptera by Scudder (1890), Meunier (1923); to Fulgoroidea by Statz (1950); and to Homoptera by Tillyard (1919), Zeuner (1941), Bode (1953).
Dictyophara bouvei was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is MCZ 1065, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Szwedo et al. (2004).
Spinidae was named by Hong (1982). Its type is Spinus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Jascopidae by Hamilton (1992).

It was assigned to Pentatomoidea by Hong (1982).
Cicadellae was named by Latreille (1802). It is extant.

It was considered an invalid subgroup of Cicadellidae by Clapham (2023).

It was assigned to Cicadariae by Latreille (1802).
Cicada forsythii was named by Buckton (1891). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is East Africa Copal (BMNH coll), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in Tanzania.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Stroinski and Szwedo (2002).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1802	Cicadellae Latreille p. 257
1843	Jassidae Amyot and Audinet-Serville
1890	Dictyophara bouvei Scudder p. 286 figs. Pl 21 fig 16
1890	Jassides Scudder p. 302
1891	Cicada forsythii Buckton p. 183 figs. Pl G, fig 26
1906	Jassidae Handlirsch p. 501
1916	Jassidae Tillyard
1919	Jassidae Tillyard
1921	Cicadellidae Cockerell
1923	Jassidae Meunier p. 83
1923	Cicadellidae Tillyard
1941	Jassidae Zeuner
1950	Jassidae Statz p. 6
1953	Jassidae Bode
1964	Cicadellidae Becker-Migdisova p. 11
1971	Jascopidae Hamilton p. 943
1982	Spinidae Hong p. 96
1986	Cicadellidae Shcherbakov p. 48
1988	Cicadellidae Shcherbakov p. 60
1990	Jascopidae Hamilton p. 82
1992	Cicadellidae Hamilton p. 423
1992	Jascopidae Hamilton p. 425
1996	Cicadellidae Cong et al. p. 219
2000	Cicadellidae Archibald and Mathewes p. 1443
2005	Cicadellidae Szwedo p. 252
2012	Cicadellidae Cryan and Urban
2014	Cicadellidae Dietrich and Gonçalves p. 3
2017	Cicadellidae Dietrich et al. p. 64
2018	Cicadellidae Szwedo p. 111
2018	Cicadellidae Wang et al. p. 147
2019	Cicadellidae Dietrich and Perkovsky p. 129
2019	Cicadellidae Szwedo p. 377
2020	Cicadellidae Dietrich and Perkovsky p. 181
2021	Cicadellidae Dietrich et al. p. 446
2023	Cicadellidae Gębicki et al. p. 870

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean
body height	1	4.50

No ecological data are available

Collections

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