BRC - Database of Insects and their Food Plants


		© Roger Key
Family	Cercopidae
Sub Family
Description	spittlebugs or froghoppers
Background to Family	A small number of rather polyphagous species, named after the nymphs that feed within a froth of plant sap ('cuckoo-spit'), and after the adult's prodigious jumping ability. Some species have bright red and black adults. In Great Britain, spittlebugs either feed on a range of dicot herbs and broadleaved shrubs and trees, or on grasses, sedges and rushes. They feed on leaves, stems or roots. The highly polyphagous Philanaeus spumarius accounts for nearly half the records.

No. taxa in DBIF	8
No. interactions	87
% interactions with British data	32%
No. records	89
% taxa with British data	100%
Notes	Data currently unassessed by a specialist for changes in nomenclature, new species to the British list, new interactions, errors in original sources, and misspellings. Following a brief inspection in 2007, Alan Stewart judged that the data for the Auchenorrhyncha were very out-of-date, because a large body of knowledge has accrued since the last update.; ;
Notes on Sources
Most recent source	1986

Below is a list of all sources for this family / sub-family contained within DBIF. Click on source name for a list of all records for this source.


Source	Burges, G. & Gal, T.(1981) Memorie Soc. ent. ital. 60:2 105-110:108
Source	Le Quesne, W.J.(1965) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects II:2A 1-64:11
Source	Jefferson, R.G.(1982) Naturalist, Hull 107 141-150:147
Source	Wilson, F.(1943) Bull. Coun. scient. ind. Res., Melb. 169 1-87:12
Source	Le Quesne, W.J.(1965) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects II:2A 1-64:10
Source	Owen, D.F. & Whiteway, W.R.(1980) Biol. Conserv. 17 149-155:154
Source	Klausnitzer, B. & Forster, G.(1984) Beitr. Ent. 34:2 421-424:423
Source	Rosenthal, S.S. & Buckingham, G.R.(1982) Hilgardia 50:2 1-19:15
Source	Davis, B.N.K.(1986) Naturalist, Hull 111 9-15:11
Source	Prestidge, R.A. & McNeill, S.(1983) Ecol. Entomol. 8 331-339:334
Source	Larsson, S. & Wiren, A.(1982) Ned. BoschbTijdschr. 48 119-125:122
Source	Le Quesne, W.J.(1965) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects II:2A 1-64:12
Source	Halkka, O. et al.(1977) Ann. Zool. Fenn. 14:4 228-234:229
Source	Le Quesne, W.J.(1965) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects II:2A 1-64:14
Source	Batra, S.(1984) Environ. Entomol. 13 1113-1124:1118
Source	Hopkins, M.J.G. & Whittaker, J.B(1980) Ecol. Entomol. 5 241-247:247
Source	Whittaker, J.B.(1964) Entomologist's mon. Mag. 100 168-171:169
Source	Lawton, J.H.(1976) Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 73 187-216:212

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