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the web of life in southern Africa

Auchenorrhyncha (cicadas, spittle bugs, leafhoppers, treehoppers, planthoppers, and relatives)

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Ecdysozoa > Panarthropoda > Tritocerebra > Phylum: Arthopoda > Mandibulata > Atelocerata > Panhexapoda > Hexapoda > Insecta (insects) > Dicondyla > Pterygota > Metapterygota > Neoptera > Eumetabola > Paraneoptera > Condylognatha > Hemiptera (bugs)

 

Superfamilies encountered in southern Africa

Cicadoidea (cicadas and relatives)

Contains two families: Tettigarctidae and Cicadidae (cicadas).

 

Cercopoidea (spittle bugs and relatives)

 

 

Cicadelloidea (leafhoppers, treehoppers and relatives)

 

 

Fulgoroidea  (planthoppers and relatives)