Family CLASTOPTERIDAE Stål, 1858

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Regional Maps

• Clastopteris Stål, 1858.

  Type genus:

   Clastopteris Stål, 1858.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stål, C. 1858. Neue systematische Eintheilung der Homopteren. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 19: 233-234 [234]

Introduction

The family Clastopteridae was created to accommodate a number of forms from North, Central and South America (Tribe Clastopterini Jacobi), with two species of Iba Schmidt, from the Philippines, comprising the monobasic tribe Ibaini Schmidt. These two tribes are now grouped together as the subfamily Clastopterinae with the transfer (by Hamilton 2001) of the family Machaerotidae to become the subfamily Machaerotinae. Members of these two subfamilies have the antennae set in deep circular pits or beneath prominent antennal ledges and the nymphs are inefficient producers of spittle. The Machaerotinae have nymphs which live in calcareous tubes which they fill with spittle. The nymphs of both groups share the feature of peculiar spirally annulated antennae.

ID Keys

https://idtools.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/cercopid/index.html

General References

Hamilton, K.G.A. 2001. A new family of froghoppers from the American tropics (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Epipygidae). Biodiversity 2(3): 15-22 [18]

History of changes