Ricaniidae
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| Ricaniidae | |
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| Euricania facialis adult | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Subclass: | Pterygota |
| Infraclass: | Neoptera |
| Superorder: | Exopterygota/Paraneoptera |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Infraorder: | Fulgoromorpha |
| Superfamily: | Fulgoroidea |
| Family: | Ricaniidae |
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Some 40, see text |
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The family Ricaniidae is a group of hemipteran insects, containing over 40 genera and 400 species world-wide. Thus, they are one of the smaller families in the planthopper superfamily (Fulgoroidea). The highest diversity is in tropical Africa and Asia and in Australia, with a few species occurring in the Palearctic.[1]
[edit] Selected genera
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Xu et al. (2007)
[edit] References
- Xu, Chang-Qing; Liang, Ai-Ping & Jiang. Guo-Mei (2007): The genus Euricania Melichar (Homoptera: Ricaniidae) from China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 54(1): 1-10. PDF fulltext
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