Belongs within: Hemiptera.
Contains: Clypeata.
The Cicadomorpha includes the modern cicadas and leafhoppers. Stem-group members of the clade are first known from the Permian, with the Prosbolopseidae known from the Early Permian and other groups appearing in the Late Permian (Shcherbakov & Popov 2002).
Synapomorphies (from Grimaldi & Engel 2005): Tegula absent; hind or both pairs of wings with ambient vein running parallel to and near margin.
<==Cicadomorpha [Prosboloidea]
|--Prosbolopseidae SP02
|--Pereborioidea SP02
| |--Pereboriidae SP02
| |--Ignotalidae SP02
| `--Curvicubitidae SP02
`--+--Prosbolidae SP02
|--Dysmorphoptilidae SP02
|--Clypeata SP02
`--Palaeontinoidea SP02
|--Dunstaniidae SP02
|--Mesogereonidae SP02
`--Paleontinidae GE05
|--Pseudocossus SP02
`--Fletcheriana triassica Evans 1956 GE05, F71
*Type species of generic name indicated
REFERENCES
[F71] Fletcher, H. O. 1971. Catalogue of type specimens of fossils in the Australian Museum, Sydney. Australian Museum Memoir 13: 1-167.
[GE05] Grimaldi, D., & M. S. Engel. 2005. Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press: New York.
[SP02] Shcherbakov, D. E., & Yu. A. Popov. 2002. Superorder Cimicidea Laicharting, 1781: Order Hemiptera Linné, 1758. The bugs, cicadas, plantlice, scale insects, etc. [=Cimicida Laicharting, 1781, =Homoptera Leach, 1815 + Heteroptera Latreille, 1810). In History of Insects (A. P. Rasnitsyn & D. L. J. Quicke, eds) pp. 143-157. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht.
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