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Homoptera
Homoptera
is a
suborder
of order
Hemiptera
that is considered by some taxonomists to be
paraphyletic
, and therefore
deprecated
(obsolete). It was therefore split into the suborders
Sternorrhyncha
,
Auchenorrhyncha
, and
Coleorrhyncha
. The earlier work was based on
nuclear DNA
, but more recent phylogenetic analysis using
mitochondrial DNA
suggest that Homoptera may be a
monophyletic
group after all, a sister group of
Heteroptera
. The cause of the disparity in the analyses is suggested to be the
long branch attraction
effect in phylogenetic analysis, due to rapidly evolving DNA regions.
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