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Definition of Family jassidae

1. Noun. Family of small leafhoppers coextensive with the Cicadellidae and not distinguished from it in some classifications.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Jassidae

Literary usage of Family jassidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1907)
"The Lantern-fly family. Family Fulgoridae. The Spittle Insects. Family Cercopidae. The Leaf-hoppers. family jassidae. The Tree-hoppers. Family Membracidae. ..."

2. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1897)
"... damage done to pastures and lawns by the leaf-hoppers of the family Jassidae, and show that while it has been indicated that the loss must be enormous, ..."

3. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1880)
"Insects of the same sub-family (Jassidae) have long been injurious to the wheat crop in parts of Europe. In this country an allied species was reported in ..."

4. Entomology for Beginners for the Use of Young Folks, Fruit-growers, Farmers by Alpheus Spring Packard (1888)
"family jassidae.—Slenderer insects than the Cercopidae, and with longer hind legs, but like them living in grass and trees. ..."

5. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1888)
"... that infests the leaves of grape, is not a member of this order, but one of the Leaf-hoppers (family Jassidae of the order Hemiptera). ..."

6. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"... the family Jassidae (q. -и.), but the name was long preoccupied, both popularly and scientifically, ..."

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