Family Cicadellidae
(cicadellids, jassids, leafhoppers, and sharpshooters)

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Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.

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  Kingdom Animalia (animals)
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  Eumetazoa (metazoans)
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  Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
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  Protostomia (protostomes)
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  Ecdysozoa
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  Phylum Arthropoda (crustaceans, insects, spiders, and relatives)
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  Uniramia
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  Subphylum Hexapoda
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  Class Insecta (insects)
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  Subclass Pterygota (winged insects)
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  Superorder Neoptera
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  Order Hemiptera (true bugs)
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  Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (hoppers)
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  Superfamily Cicadoidea
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  Family Cicadellidae (cicadellids, jassids, leafhoppers, and sharpshooters)
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  Genus Acinopterus
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  Genus Agallia
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  Genus Ambigonalia
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  Genus Balclutha
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  Genus Balolina
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  Genus Carneocephala
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  Genus Circulifer
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  Genus Deltocephalus
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  Genus Draeculacephala
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  Genus Empoasca
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  Genus Exitianus
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  Genus Graphocephala
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  Genus Gyponana
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  Genus Kirkaldiella
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  Genus Kunzeana
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  Genus Macropsis
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  Genus Nephotettix
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  Genus Nesolina
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  Genus Nesophrosyne
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  Genus Nesophryne
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  Genus Opsius
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  Genus Protalebrella