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Cheiloceps
Genus of insects
Cheiloceps is a genus of planthoppers in the family Issidae. Cheiloceps was originally erected as a genus by Uhler in 1895, later downgraded to a subgenus of Thionia by Fennah in 1955; and restored to genus status by Gnezdilov in 2018.
01Extant species
- Cheiloceps anguillanus (Fennah, 1965)
- Cheiloceps argo (Fennah, 1949)
- Cheiloceps borinqueta (Caldwell & Martorell, 1951)
- Cheiloceps clusiae (Fennah, 1955)
- Cheiloceps laodice (Fennah, 1955)
- Cheiloceps medusa (Fennah, 1955)
- Cheiloceps musca Uhler, 1895
- Cheiloceps puertoricensis (Caldwell & Martorell, 1951)
02Extinct species
- †Cheiloceps arachnophila Dietrich, Williams & Heads, 2023
- †Cheiloceps douglundbergi (Stroiński & Szwedo, 2008)
- †heiloceps magnifrons Gnezdilov, Sun & Perkovsky, 2023
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