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Insect Morphology and Systematics CERCOPIDAE(Spittle bug or Cuckoo-spilt or Frog hopper)Insect Morphology and Systematics4. CERCOPIDAE(Spittle bug or Cuckoo-spilt or Frog hopper)
Adults resemble tiny frogs.
Hind tibiae with one or two lateral spines and a crown short spines at the tip.
Nymphs are soft, whitish and live inside the forth.
Froth comes from liquid freed from alimentary canal and from a mucilagenous substance
created from the epidermal glands on the seventh and eight abdominal segments. These
are beaten into froth by means of the caudal appendages of the insect. Spittle serves both
as a protective device and a means of reducing evaporation.
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