Cicadellidae

Leafhopper is the common name for any species from the family Cicadellidae: based on the type genus Cicadella. These minute insects, colloquially known as hoppers, are plant feeders that suck plant sap from grass, shrubs, or trees. Their hind legs are modified for jumping, and are covered with hairs that facilitate the spreading of a secretion over their bodies that acts as a water repellent and carrier of pheromones. They undergo a partial metamorphosis, and have various host associations, varying from very generalized to very specific. Some species have a cosmopolitan distribution, or occur throughout the temperate and tropical regions. Some are pests or vectors of plant viruses and phytoplasmas. The family is distributed all over the world, and constitutes the second-largest hemipteran family, with at least 20,000 described species.

Cicadellidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
leafhopperPBDB
Sits inside
MembracoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 139 million years on record.

The record covers at least 139.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 141 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 197 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 20 of 197 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 197 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 197 occurrencesEocene — about 70 of 197 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 37 of 197 occurrencesMiocene — about 36 of 197 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 197 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 197 occurrences144–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence134–129 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences125–120 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 12 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 5 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 8 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 4 occurrences91–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–48 Mya — about 9 occurrences48–43 Mya — about 5 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 53 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 28 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 10 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 22 occurrences14–9.6 Mya — about 11 occurrences9.6–4.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.8–0 Mya — about 16 occurrences139.1 Mya11.7 ka144 Mya0 Mya

197 occurrences of Cicadellidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

197 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

26 formations

Rott — 50.75°N, 7.26°EGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.78°WGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 41.82°N, 110.76°WGreen River — 39.63°N, 108.15°WBarstow — 34.95°N, 116.83°WBarstow — 34.94°N, 116.83°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WRita Blanca — 35.71°N, 102.45°WMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ETremembé — 22.95°S, 45.54°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°ETitusville Till — 41.62°N, 79.64°WKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WTranquille — 50.13°N, 120.51°Winterbasaltic plant-beds — 56.34°N, 6.23°WWeald Clay — 52.72°N, 1.44°WAllenby — 49.45°N, 120.59°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ELulworth — 51.08°N, 1.98°WFox Hills — 39.92°N, 103.86°WDalazi — 42.65°N, 129.61°EXiagou — 39.97°N, 97.80°ELaiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°ENagano — 31.88°N, 130.34°E

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The named rock units Cicadellidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 79 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cicadellidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cicadellidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,985 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 90 sites for Cicadellidae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

68 references

Each of the 197 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 56 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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