INTRODUCTION 
The present catalogue of the Family Fulgoridae forms Part 9 of Fascicle 
IV of the General Catalogue of the Hemiptera of the World, which is de- 
voted to the Superfamily Fulgoroidea. 
CHARACTERS OF THE FAMILY FULGORIDAE 
The Family Fulgoridae is one of the larger families of the Fulgoroidea. 
The present catalogue contains 108 genera and 543 species. This family 
includes the largest and most bizarre species in the superfamily Fulgoroidea; 
the vast majority of the species are medium sized fulgoroids, and none are 
small. 
The head is usually large and in the more conspicuous species is provided 
with a large cephalic process, which may be simple and tubular, enormously 
inflated, flattened and triangular, erect, recurved, or simple and spine-like. 
In most species, however, the head is simple, with a short flat crown; a 
large frons, usually quadrangular, with strongly elevated lateral margins; 
a large postclypeus, broadly triangular in outline, with strongly elevated 
lateral margins and a small anteclypeus. The compound eyes are usually 
large, projecting, semiglobose with the ventral sinus poorly developed. 
The paired ocelli are conspicuous, usually placed between the compound 
eyes and the antennae. The antennae are relatively inconspicuous with the 
first segment sometimes short and inconspicuous, sometimes more elongate, 
terete. The second segment is usually larger, globose or transversely ellip- 
soidal. 
The thorax is typically large. The pronotum is usually nearly as large as 
the mesonotum. The pronotum is frequently transverse, with the anterior 
margin strongly projecting to or beyond the anterior margin of the com- 
pound eyes and the posterior margin usually excavated. The median carina 
is strongly elevated in most genera. The mesonotum is typically triangular 
in outline, with median and intermediate carinae. The tegulae are large. 
All the members of this family are macropterous, both the tegmina and 
hind wings large with numerous supernumerary veins and cross veins. The 
anal and jugal areas of the hind wings are strongly reticulate. This is the 
best character to separate this family from certain members of the family 
Dictyopharidae. 
The abdomen is typically large and broadly depressed. The female geni- 
talia are incomplete. In the male the ninth abdominal segment is usually 
short and ring-like. The genital styles are large and complex, frequently 
completely covering the tenth segment when viewed ventrally. The phallus 
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