Family Caliscelidae
Caliscelid planthoppers
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The Caliscelidae have been treated as a subfamily of the Issidae until recently. Emeljanov (1999) has outlined the reasons for regarding the group as a family in its own right and provides references to other work on which this is based. The principal characters are provided by the structures of the female genitalia and ovipositor. 

Caliscelids are usually highly brachypterous with the tegmina barely reaching over the first abdominal segments. Some of the Australian species, most of which are undescribed, have the forelegs expanded or have the head produced in front of the eyes.
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Gelastissus albolineatus Kirkaldy
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of Caliscelidae

Document 3211, submitted 02 March 2004
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