Homotomidae was a family of small phloem-feeding bugs in the superfamily of jumping plantlice, but recently (2021) subsumed to the subfamily Homotominae in the family Carsidaridae.
Hostplants
The species in this family feed almost exclusively on plants of the Moraceae genus Ficus. The only exception is the genus Triozamia, with its three species feeding on different varieties of Antiaris toxicaria, also in the Moraceae family.
Systematics
Hollis & Broomfield (1989) propose the following classification within Homotomidae:
- subfamily Dynopsyllinae <small>Becker-Migdisova, 1973</small>
- tribe Diceraopsyllini <small>Hollis & Broomfield, 1989</small>
- Diceraopsylla <small>Crawford, 1912</small> (1 sp.)
- tribe Dynopsyllini <small>Becker-Migdisova, 1973</small>
- subtribe Dynopsyllina <small>Becker-Migdisova, 1973</small>
- Dynopsylla <small>Crawford, 1913</small> (3 spp.)
- Austrodynopsylla <small>Hollis & Broomfield, 1989</small> (1 sp.)
- subtribe Triozamiina <small>Becker-Migdisova, 1973</small>
- Triozamia <small>VondráÃÂek, 1963</small> (3 spp.)
- Afrodynopsylla <small>Hollis & Broomfield, 1989</small> (1 sp.)
- subfamily Macrohomotominae <small>White & Hodkinson, 1985</small>
- tribe Edenini <small>Bhanotar, Ghosh & Ghosh, 1972</small>
- Mycopsylla <small>Froggatt, 1901</small> (9 spp.)
- tribe Macrohomotomini <small>White & Hodkinson, 1985</small>
- Macrohomotoma <small>Kuwayama, 1908</small> (14 spp.)
- Pseudoeriopsylla <small>Newstead, 1911</small> (6 spp.)
- subfamily Homotominae <small>Heslop-Harrison, 1958</small>
- tribe Homotomini <small>Heslop-Harrison, 1958</small>
- Homotoma <small>Guérin-Méneville, 1844</small> (31 spp.)
- tribe Synozini <small>Becker-Migdisova, 1973</small>
- Synoza <small>Enderlein, 1918</small> (3 spp.)
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