Homotomidae | |
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Homotoma ficus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
Superfamily: | Psylloidea |
Family: | Homotomidae Heslop-Harrison, 1958 [1] |
Genera | |
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Homotomidae was a family of small phloem-feeding bugs in the superfamily of jumping plantlice, but recently (2021) subsumed to the subfamily Homotominae Heslop-Harrison, 1958 in the family Carsidaridae. [2]
The species in this family feed almost exclusively on plants of the Moraceae genus Ficus . The only exception is the genus Triozamia, with its three species feeding on different varieties of Antiaris toxicaria , also in the Moraceae family. [3]
Hollis & Broomfield (1989) propose the following classification within Homotomidae: [3]
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