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Planthopper

A planthopper is any insect in the infraorder Fulgoromorpha.

Full lineage in NCBI Taxonomy: cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Opisthokonta; Metazoa; Eumetazoa; Bilateria; Protostomia; Ecdysozoa; Panarthropoda; Arthropoda; Mandibulata; Pancrustacea; Hexapoda; Insecta; Dicondylia; Pterygota; Neoptera; Paraneoptera; Hemiptera; Auchenorrhyncha; Fulgoromorpha.


A planthopper on a leaf

Definitions in the literature

  • Multicelled, typically photosynthetic organism; develops from an embryo that forms on the parent and is nourished by it [1].
  • 1) In traditional classifications, any living organism of the kingdom Plantae, which includes the various groups of algae and the land plants, or embryophytes. ... 2) Any member of an assemblage of eukaryotic organisms- the Archaeplastida- recognized on the basis of recent molecular data [2].