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Adults are black with two red or orange lines crossing the wings. It reaches a length of 8–10 mm. It is widespread in the eastern half of the United States. [2] A similar species, Prosapia simulans, can be found throughout Central America where it is considered an agricultural pest. [3] [4] Pinned Prosapia bicincta, collected in Milledgeville, Ga
BBC: "Garden insect is jump champion" List of all Cercopoidea species from COOL database by A Soulier-Perkins in the 2008 Catalogue of Life; DrMetcalf: a resource on cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, spittlebugs, and treehoppers "Froth-fly" . New International Encyclopedia. 1906.
Ptyelus grossus is an Auchenorrhynchan spittlebug in the family Aphrophoridae.Occurring from Southern Africa through to West Africa, the species is gregarious in its larval and nymph stages, feeding on a variety of plants, and producing protective shelters of acrid foam from their host plant's sap.
Cercopidae are the largest family of Cercopoidea, a xylem-feeding insect group, commonly called froghoppers. [2] They belong to the hemipteran suborder Auchenorrhyncha.A 2023 phylogenetic study of the family suggested the elevation of the New World subfamily Ischnorhininae to full family status as Ischnorhinidae, leaving a monophyletic Old World Cercopinae.
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They are sometimes called tube-forming spittle-bugs as the nymphs form a calcareous tube within which they live. These bugs are mainly found in the Old World tropics. The adults of many genera have a long, free and spine-like process originating from the scutellum and thus superficially similar to the tree-hoppers, Membracidae.
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Traditionally, most of the superfamily Cercopoidea was considered a single family, the Cercopidae, but this family has been split into three families for many years now: the Aphrophoridae, Cercopidae, and Clastopteridae.