NOMEN: Homoptera Latreille 1810 [P.A. Latreille. Considérations générales sur l'orde naturel des animaux composant les classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides, et des Insectes. Paris, F. Schoell, 1810: 1-444]

ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Latreille 1810): Thysanoptera (= Thrips) + Auchenorrhyncha (= Cicadariae) + Plantisuga (= Psyllidae + Aphis + Aleyrodes + Gallinsecta)

JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:

= Omoptera Leach 1815

= Deramphia Rafinesque 1815

= Homata Billberg 1820

TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Cicada/fg (sine Cimex; incl. Thrips)

TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: 

MODERN STATUS: the oldest name of a non-accepted paraphyletic taxon.

COMMENT. Originally the name Homoptera Latreille 1810 was introduced for a paraphyletic taxon which united all Hemiptera (i.e. Condylognatha) except for Heteroptera. In modern literature the name Homoptera is often wrongly used for another paraphyletic taxon, which does not unclude Thysanoptera, but unites all Arthroidignatha except for Heteroptera:

NOMEN: Homoptera Burmeister 1835: 39 [H. Burmeister. Handbuch der Entomologie, Bd.2., Abt.1., 1835]

ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Burmeister 1835): Diptera + Hymenoptera + Lepidoptera 

JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:

= Zygothoraca Schoch 1884

= Neoptera Woodworth 1906 (non Martynov 1923)

TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Papilio/fg (incl. Oestrus, Cynips)

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MODERN STATUS: junior homonym of Homoptera Latreille 1810, invalid synonym of Zygothoraca Schoch 1884; belongs to a non-accepted polyphyletic taxon.