A proposal to stop using the insect order name “Homoptera”.
Author of the article:LIANG Ai-Ping
Author's Workplace:(Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China)
Key Words:“Homoptera”; Hemiptera; paraphyly; monophyly; cladistic classification
Abstract:The advent of cladistics and its wide use has greatly improved our knowledge of many higher taxa in biota and many artificial (nonmonophyletic) taxa have been recognized. The insect order “Homoptera” is one of those nonmonophyletic groups recognize