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Cicadomorpha

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	175971	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=175971

Rank

infraorder (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hemiptera : Cicadomorpha

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Clareocercaria	Prokop et al. 2017
-	Acercaria
superorder	Pancondylognatha	Yoshizawa and Leinhard 2016
-	Condylognatha	Börner 1904
order	Hemiptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Auchenorrhyncha
infraorder	Cicadomorpha	Evans 1946

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cicadomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Hemineoptera	stated with evidence	Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence, 2004
Cicadomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Auchenorrhyncha	stated with evidence	Grimaldi and Engel, 2005
Cicadomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Hemiptera	stated without evidence	Wang et al., 2008
Cicadomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Auchenorrhyncha	stated with evidence	Cryan and Urban, 2012
Cicadomorpha	suborder	belongs to Hemiptera	stated without evidence	Prokop et al., 2015
Cicadomorpha	infraorder	belongs to Auchenorrhyncha	stated with evidence	Johnson et al., 2018
Cicadomorpha	suborder	belongs to Hemelytrata	stated with evidence	Szwedo, 2018

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

1,264

Extant Size (PBDB)

155 (12%)

First Recorded Appearance

304 - 299 Ma
Carboniferous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

B. Wang and H. C. Zhang. 2009. A remarkable new genus of Procercopidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) from the Middle Jurassic of China. Comptes Rendus Palevol 8:389-394

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Prosbolomorpha ✝ infraorder	listed (PBDB)		478	304 Ma Carboniferous	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Prosbolopsemorpha ✝ infraorder	listed (PBDB)		59	279 Ma Permian	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Cercopoidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)	Froghopper	217	254 Ma Permian	0 Ma Extant
Cicadoidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)		99	237 Ma Middle Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Ligavenoidea ✝ superfamily	listed (PBDB)		1	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Membracoidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)		229	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Kratosopsylla ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Clypeata unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		67	260 Ma Permian	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1853	Pseudophana amatoria Heer p. 90 figs. Pl 13, fig 10
1856	Pseudophana amatoria Heer p. 39
1859	Typhlocyba carbonaria Von Heyden p. 11 figs. Pl 1, fig 14
1946	Cicadomorpha Evans
2004	Cicadomorpha Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence
2005	Cicadomorpha Grimaldi and Engel p. 304
2008	Cicadomorpha Wang et al.

Year	Name and Author
2009	Cicadomorpha Wang et al. p. 54
2012	Cicadomorpha Cryan and Urban
2014	Cicadomorpha Dietrich and Gonçalves p. 3
2015	Cicadomorpha Prokop et al. p. 40
2018	Cicadomorpha Johnson et al.
2018	Cicadomorpha Szwedo p. 110

References

Wang B., Zhang H. C. (2009) A remarkable new genus of Procercopidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) from the Middle Jurassic of China, Comptes Rendus Palevol 8, 389-394

Heer O. , Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Dritte Theil: Rhynchoten, 1-138

Heer O. Ueber die fossilen Insekten von Aix in der Provence, Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 1, 1-40

Von Heyden C. Fossile Insekten aus der Rheinischen Braunkhohle, Palaeontographica 8, 1-15

Kukalová-Peck J., Lawrence J. F. (2004) Relationships among coleopteran suborders and major endoneopteran lineages: Evidence from hind wing characters, European Journal of Entomology 101, 95-144

Grimaldi D., Engel M. S. (2005) , Evolution of the Insects, 1-772

Wang B., Zhang H., et al (2008) New data on Cretaceous Palaeontinidae (Insecta: Hemiptera) from China, Cretaceous Research 29, 551-560

Wang B., Zhang H. C., et al (2009) Jurassic Palaeontinidae from China and the higher systematics of Palaeontinoidea (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha), Palaeontology 52, 53-64

Dietrich C. H., Gonçalves A. C. (2014) New Baltic amber leafhoppers representing the oldest Aphrodinae and Megophthalminae (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 74, 1-13

Prokop J., Szwedo J., et al (2015) New Middle Permian insects from Salagou Formation of the Lodève Basin in southern France (Insecta: Pterygota), Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 51, 14-51

Johnson K. P., Dietrich C. H., et al (2018) Phylogenomics and the evolution of hemipteroid insects, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi:10.1073/pnas.1815820115

Szwedo J. (2018) The unity, diversity and conformity of bugs (Hemiptera) through time, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107, 109-128

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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