Phylogeny of the Major Lineages of Membracoidea (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha) Based on 28S rDNA Sequences

New Baltic amber leafhoppers representing the oldest Aphrodinae and Megophthalminae (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae)

“…This provides further support for phylogenetic results suggesting that treehoppers arose from within a lineage comprising Megophthalminae and Ulopinae (Dietrich et al 2001).…”

A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae)

“…The entire aligned 28S rDNA data set included 3437 positions, and with segment II (see Dietrich et al 2001) and the final 22 bp excluded, the data set included 2908 characters; 500 of these were parsimony-informative, 402 were variable and parsimony-uninformative, and 2006 were constant. The indel data set included 60 characters, all of which were parsimony-informative.…”

“…Also, taxonomic concepts of many family-group taxa have often not been clearly stated or universally agreed upon, or even if they have, their circumscriptions have often not been tested by examination of multiple character sets or in phylogenetic analyses. These deficiencies have been partly addressed by taxonomic revisions (e.g., Linnavuori & Al-Ne'amy 1983, Knight & Webb 1993, Zhang & Webb 1996, Dietrich & Dmitriev 2003 and recent phylogenetic studies based on morphological (Dietrich 1999, Knight & Webb 1993, Zahniser & Dietrich 2008) and molecular data (Dietrich et al 2001, Zahniser & Dietrich 2010. These studies provided strong evidence European Journal of Taxonomy 45: 1-211 (2013) that Deltocephalinae sensu Oman et al (1990) was not monophyletic and that several other leafhopper subfamilies had their closest relatives within the deltocephaline lineage.…”

“…*Identification updated from previous study (Zahniser & Dietrich 2010). **28S data taken from previous study (Dietrich et al 2001;Rakitov, unpublished) …”

New fossil genus and species of Sinoalidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) from the Middle to Upper Jurassic deposits in northeastern China

“…The hemipteran superfamily Cercopoidea Leach, 1815 is the second largest superfamily in the Cicadomorpha, comprising approximately 3000 described species (Hamilton, 2001;Dietrich, 2002). It differs from other extant superfamilies' of Cicadomorpha in having conical and short hind coxa, c ylindrical hind tibia with one or more large spines and a body clothed in fi ne setae (Szwedo et al, 2004;Dietrich, 2005).…”