Homoptera

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Homoptera - plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insectssuborder Homopteraanimal order - the order of animalsHemiptera, order Hemiptera - plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas)homopteran, homopterous insect - insects having membranous forewings and hind wingsAleyrodidae, family Aleyrodidae - whitefliesCoccoidea, superfamily Coccoidea - scale insects and mealybugsAphidoidea, superfamily Aphidoidea - plant liceChermidae, family Chermidae, family Psyllidae, Psyllidae - jumping plant liceCicadidae, family Cicadidae - cicadasCercopidae, family Cercopidae - froghoppers or spittlebugsCicadellidae, family Cicadellidae - leafhoppersfamily Jassidae, Jassidae - family of small leafhoppers coextensive with the Cicadellidae and not distinguished from it in some classificationsfamily Membracidae, Membracidae - plant hoppers: treehoppersfamily Fulgoridae, Fulgoridae - plant hoppers: lantern flies