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Fulgora
The fulgorid genus Fulgora contains several large Central and South American planthoppers known by a large variety of common names including lantern fly, peanut bug, peanut-headed lanternfly, alligator bug, machaca, and jequitiranaboia (the latter terms used in the Amazon region and elsewhere in Brazil).
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Aphrophora
Aphrophora is a genus of spittlebugs in the family Aphrophoridae. There are at least 80 described species in Aphrophora.
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Umbonia
Umbonia is a genus of bugs in the family Membracidae. The species can be mainly found in Central America and South America but can also be found in southern Florida. It contains the following species:
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Philaenus
Philaenus is a genus of insects belonging to the family Aphrophoridae, the spittlebugs.
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Cercopis
Cercopis is a genus of froghoppers belonging to the family Cercopidae, distributed primarily in the Palearctic. At least one species, C. vulnerata, can be a pest to agriculture. There are over 30 accepted species.
Ptyelus
Ptyelus is a genus of true bugs belonging to the family Aphrophoridae.
Issus
genus of insects
Nephotettix
Nephotettix is a genus of leafhoppers in the subfamily Deltocephalinae and tribe Chiasmini. Species are mostly found in Asia, although two are from Africa.
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Acanalonia
thumb|Nymph Acanalonia is a genus of planthopper and contains the majority of the species within the family Acanaloniidae. Species have been recorded from southern Europe and the Americas.
Geisha
genus of insects
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Pyrops
Pyrops is a genus of planthoppers that occur primarily in southeast Asia, containing about 70 species. They are fairly large insects, with much of the length due to an elongated, upcurving, snout-like projection of the head. The wings are generally brightly patterned in contrasting colors, and they are popular among collectors.
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Neophilaenus
Neophilaenus is a genus of spittlebugs in the family Aphrophoridae. There are about 10 described species in Neophilaenus. thumb|Neophilaenus lineatus
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Cyphonia
Cyphonia is a genus of treehopper belonging to the subfamily Smiliinae. It contains 33 species.
Bocydium
Bocydium is a genus of insects in the treehopper family, Membracidae. A 1999 classification identified 14 species in the genus, distributed around the Neotropics.
Nilaparvata
Nilaparvata is a genus of planthoppers in the subfamily Delphacinae and tribe Delphacini Leach, 1815.
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Heteronotus
Heteronotus is a genus of treehoppers belonging to the subfamily Heteronotinae, of which it is the type genus. It was first described by François Laporte in 1832.
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Gargara
genus of insects
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Homalodisca
Homalodisca is a genus of sharpshooters in the family Cicadellidae and tribe Proconiini. It contains a significant pest species, the glassy-winged sharpshooter.
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Stenocranus
Stenocranus is a genus of delphacid planthoppers in the family Delphacidae. There are more than 70 described species in Stenocranus. thumb
Saiva
Saiva is a genus of Asian planthoppers, family Fulgoridae. They are colourful insects, marked boldly in red, blue, white and black, with a prominent slender stalk like structure arising on the head that points upwards or forward. The known distribution is from India, China and Indochina.
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Choconta
genus of insects
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Acutalis
Acutalis is a genus of treehoppers belonging to the subfamily Smiliinae in the family Membracidae. It was first described by Léon Fairmaire in 1846, and contains four species.
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Cixius
thumb|Cixius stigmatus, Oklahoma
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Sogatella
Sogatella is a genus of delphacid planthoppers in the family Delphacidae. There are more than 20 described species in Sogatella. thumb
Eulepyroniella
Eulepyroniella is a genus of true bugs belonging to the family Aphrophoridae.
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Ricania
Ricania is a genus of planthoppers belonging to the family Ricaniidae.
Siphanta
Siphanta is a genus of planthoppers in the family Flatidae.
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Prosapia
Prosapia is a genus of froghoppers in the family Ischnorhinidae. There are about six described species in Prosapia. The genus is distributed in North and Central America, including the Caribbean. thumb|Prosapia bicincta
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Stictocephala
alt=Two-horned Treehopper (Stictocephala diceros)|thumb|Two-horned Treehopper(Stictocephala diceros) alt=Tree hopper nymph Stictocephala spp.|thumb|Tree hopper nymph Stictocephala spp. Stictocephala is a genus of treehoppers in the family Membracidae; in the subfamily Smiliinae and tribe Ceresini. Species appear to be distributed mostly in North America, but S. bisonia has become widely distributed in Europe.
Metcalfa
Metcalfa is a genus of planthoppers in the Flatidae family and the tribe Nephesini. Species are essentially North American in origin, but M. pruinosa has been introduced to Europe (including Britain).
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Magia
genus of insects
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Antonae
Antonae is a genus of treehoppers in the family Membracidae.
Philaronia
Philaronia is a genus of spittlebugs in the family Aphrophoridae. There are about five described species in Philaronia.
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Hemikyptha
Hemikyptha is a genus of treehoppers belonging to the subfamily Darninae. It was first described by Zeno Payne Metcalf in 1927, and contains 7 species.
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Lepyronia
Lepyronia is a genus of froghoppers in the family Aphrophoridae.
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Dictyophara
Dictyophara is the type genus of planthoppers belonging to the family Dictyopharidae and tribe Dictyopharini, containing five subgenera. The scientific genus name Dictyophara derives from the Greek (dictyon: net and phorein: wear) and can be translated "who wears a net".
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Lycorma
Lycorma is a genus of planthoppers native to Asia. The first species within the genus was described by Frederick William Hope in 1843 and the genus was formally established by Carl Stål in 1863.
Bostaera
Bostaera is a genus of delphacid planthoppers in the family Delphacidae. There are about five described species in Bostaera.
Megamelus
Megamelus is a genus of delphacid planthoppers in the family Delphacidae. There are at least 30 described species in Megamelus.
Ancyra
genus of insects
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Clastoptera
Clastoptera is a genus of spittlebugs in the family Clastopteridae. There are at least 30 described species in Clastoptera. thumb|Clastoptera xanthocephala
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Ceresa
Ceresa, commonly known as buffalo treehoppers, is a genus of treehoppers. It contains about 16 species.
Kalidasa
genus of insects
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Tylopelta
Tylopelta is a genus of treehoppers in the family Membracidae. There are at least four described species in Tylopelta. thumb|Tylopelta gibbera
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Alchisme
Alchisme is a genus of treehoppers within the family Membracidae. Members of this genus can be found in Central and South America.
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Dictyonissus
Dictyonissus is a genus of tropiduchid planthoppers in the family Tropiduchidae. There are at least two described species in Dictyonissus.
Dictyobia
Dictyobia is a genus of tropiduchid planthoppers in the family Tropiduchidae. There are at least four described species in Dictyobia.
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Penthicodes
Penthicodes is a genus of planthoppers belonging to the family Fulgoridae, subfamily Aphaeninae: found in South-East Asia. The genus name was formerly treated as feminine, but in 2022 it was revised to masculine in accordance with ICZN Article 30.1.4.4, changing the spelling of several species' names.
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Cordia
genus of insects
Tomaspis
Tomaspis is a genus of froghopper in the family Ischnorhinidae (formerly Cercopidae). The genus was first described by Amyot & Serville in 1843.
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Synecdoche
genus of insects
Laccocera
Laccocera is a genus of delphacid planthoppers in the family Delphacidae. There are about 10 described species in Laccocera.
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Anchon
Anchon is a genus of treehoppers. The name is derived from (bend, elbow) referring to the characteristic bend in the backward facing horn that arises vertically from the pronotum and turns at a near-right-angle over the abdomen. Two anterior horns rise outwards to the sides in many species. Species in the genus are found in the Afrotropical, Palearctic, and Indomalayan regions. They are placed in the subfamily Centrotinae.
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Agalmatium
Agalmatium is a genus of planthoppers belonging to the family Issidae, subfamily Hysteropterinae.
Eoscarta
Eoscarta is a genus of froghopper (Cercopidae) with about 50 species distributed in the Oriental region. Species in the genus are identified by a combination of characters that include an elongated pubescent body, highly laterally compressed postclypeus, the hind tibia with a single lateral spur and genital characters of the males.
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Smilia
Smilia is a genus of treehoppers belonging to the tribe Smiliini in the subfamily Smiliinae. There are at least two described species in the genus.
Poekilloptera
Poekilloptera is a genus of South American planthoppers in the subfamily Flatinae and is the sole genus in the tribe Poekillopterini.
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Polyglypta
Polyglypta is a genus of treehoppers in the family Membracidae. There are at least three described species in Polyglypta. thumb
Trachytalis
Trachytalis is a genus of treehoppers in the family Membracidae and subfamily Smiliinae. There are 3 described species in Trachytalis.
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Enchenopa
thumb|Enchenopa squamigera thumb|Nymph, on walnut tree. Enchenopa is a genus of treehoppers in the family Membracidae. There are more than 50 described species in Enchenopa.