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Fig. 29 Hindleg of a froghopper - family
Cercopidae.
Superfamily
CICADOMORPHA
Fig. 27 A capsid (mirid) bug, Malacocoris chlorizans
- family Miridae (xlO).
Antennae arise from between the pair of com-
pound eyes.
10. Family CERCOPIDAE (froghoppers)
(p. 98 et seq.)
Small to medium-sized, very active bugs with the
hindlegs adapted for jumping; ocelli (two)
present in adults; adults of some species are su-
perficially frog-like; hind tibiae cylindrical and
bearing just a few stout spines (Fig. 29) (cf. fam-
ily Cicadellidae); veins 1A and 2A of forewings
separate throughout their length (Fig. 30a) (cf.
family Delphacidae). Nymphs develop within a
protective mass of froth (often called 'cuckoo-
spit'), a secretion produced from the anus and
through which air bubbles are forced from a spe-
cial canal by abdominal contractions.
EXAMPLES: Aphrophorinae - Philaenus
spumarius (common froghopper); Cercopinae
-
Fig. 28 Antenna of a leafhopper - family
Cicadellidae.
pronotum usually small; rostrum (beak) arising
from posterior part of head. Eggs usually
sausage-shaped, and often white, yellowish or
black. All members are phytophagous.
Series AUCHENORRHYNCHA
Antennae very short, but with a terminal arista
(Fig. 28); rostrum clearly arising from the head;
tarsi 3-segmented.
Cercopis
vulnerata
(red
&
black
froghopper).
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