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- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cicadomorpha
- Image
- Prosapia bicincta Kaldari.jpg
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- Commons category
- Cercopoidea
- taxon name
- Cercopoidea
- taxon rank
- superfamily
- topic's main category
- Category:Cercopoidea
- taxon common name
- 沫蟬總科
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
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- Taxonomy
- Spittlebug nymphs{{anchor|Cuckoo spit}}
- Adults
- Evolutionary history
- References
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thumb|Phymatostetha deschampsi from India
The superfamily Cercopoidea, some members of which are called froghoppers and still others known as spittlebugs, are a group of hemipteran insects in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha. Adults are capable of jumping many times their height and length, giving the group their common name, but many species are best known for their plant-sucking nymphs which produce foam shelters, and are referred to as "spittlebugs".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “froghopper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.