Identification Key and Checklists for the Froghoppers and Spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) of Australia and neighbouring areas

 

Sugarcane froghopper
Euryaulax carnifex (Fabricius)

Key prepared by
Murray J. Fletcher
Orange Agricultural Institute

New Zealand component in collaboration with Marie-Claude Larivière, Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand

Evans (1966) recognised three families in the Australian fauna, the Cercopidae (froghoppers), the Aphrophoridae (the spittlebugs) and the Machaerotidae (tube spittlebugs). Hamilton (2001) included the true spittlebugs as the subfamily Aphrophorinae of the family Cercopidae, the froghoppers as the subfamily Cercopinae of a revised family Cercopidae and the tube spittlebugs as the subfamily Machaerotinae of the American family Clastopteridae. However, Cryan and Svenson (2010), based on an extensive DNA analysis, concluded that there were four lineages in the Cercopoidea corresponding with four families, including the three that Evans (1966) had recognised in the Australian fauna. This is the classification which is followed here.

Start key to the families of Cercopoidea

First published: 2 February 2000
Last update 2010

Citation

This key may be cited as:
Fletcher, M.J. (2010) Identification Key and Checklists for the Froghoppers and Spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) of Australia and neighbouring areas. https://idtools.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/cercopid/index.html

Keywords

Australia insect insects biodiversity identification taxonomy systematics morphology New South Wales NSW key Auchenorrhyncha Hemiptera Homoptera