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Top: Science: Biology: Flora_and_Fauna: Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Hemiptera: Homoptera

This ecologically and economically important suborder includes cicadas, leafhoppers, treehoppers, planthoppers, whiteflies, aphids, adelgids, scale insects, spittlebugs, mealybugs and many others. The forewings and hindwings are both entirely membranous. All are herbivorous feeding on plant juices.

Aleyrodidae

Family of insects, the whiteflies.

Aphididae

Family of insects in the order Homoptera, the aphids.

Cicadidae

This category holds sites related to the cicada.

Cixiidae

Family of insects, the planthoppers.

Coccidae

Family of scale insects.

Diaspididae

Family of insects in the group Homoptera, the scale insects.

Flatidae

Family of plant-hoppers.

Fulgoridae

Family of insects, the Lantern Flies.

Kermesidae

Family of scale insects.

Kerriidae

Family of scale insects.

Lygaeidae

Family of bugs.

Margarodidae

Family of scale insects.

Membracidae

Family of insects commonly known as treehoppers.

Phylloxeridae

Family of small, sap-sucking insects.

Pseudococcidae

Family of sap-sucking insects, the mealybugs.

Psyllidae

Family of insects in the order Homoptera, the plant suckers.

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