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Aphrophoridae

Family of true bugs

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en:Philaenus spumarius - (meadow froghoppe ) Locality : Fronton, Haute-Garonne France.
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Taxonomy

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. All molecular analyses published since 2005 indicate that Aphrophoridae is monophyletic, but only if the Epipyginae is retained within Aphrophoridae as a subfamily or tribe within Aphrophoridae, rather than excluded as a separate family ("Epipygidae").

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