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Taxonomy
Homoptera was named by Leach (1815). It is extant. It was considered polyphyletic by Grimaldi and Engel (2005).
It was reranked as the order Homoptera by Cockerell (1921), Martynov (1928).
It was assigned to Neoptera by Martynov (1928); to Insecta by Cockerell (1921), Bode (1953), Hong (1979); and to Hemiptera by Tillyard (1918), Tillyard (1921), Tillyard (1923), Cockerell (1926), Carpenter (1933), Zeuner (1941), Statz (1950), Whalley (1985), Grimaldi and Engel (2005).
It was reranked as the order Homoptera by Cockerell (1921), Martynov (1928).
It was assigned to Neoptera by Martynov (1928); to Insecta by Cockerell (1921), Bode (1953), Hong (1979); and to Hemiptera by Tillyard (1918), Tillyard (1921), Tillyard (1923), Cockerell (1926), Carpenter (1933), Zeuner (1941), Statz (1950), Whalley (1985), Grimaldi and Engel (2005).
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