The Homopterans are believed to have appeared during Permian-time, and are therefore quite ancient in origin. They are today a large group of some 30,000 species that includes cicadas, planthoppers, leafhoppers, aphids, scales; their common claim to fame is that they suck on plants.

 

 

Gallery of Fossil Homopteran Images
Cicada Family: Cicadidae Lower Cretaceous Liaoning Province, China	Worker Ant with Aphid in Baltic Amber Upper Eocene - Lower Oligocene Kaliningrad District, Russia	Mottled planthopper in amber	Planthopper in fossil amber Family Issidae Oligocene - Miocene Dominican Republic
Froghopper, or spittlebug in fossil amber Family Cercopidae Pliocene to Pleistocene Andes Mountains, Colombia	Planthopper with long rostrum in Fossil Amber Family: Fulgaridae Pliocene to Pleistocene Andes Mountains, Colombia	10 mm planthopper in amber Family Cercopidae Pliocene to Pleistocene Andes Mountains, Colombia	10 mm Planthopper in fossil amber Family Achilidae Pliocene to Pleistocene Andes Mountains, Colombia
Planthopper Family: Fulgaridae Lower Cretaceous Liaoning Province China	Aphid in Fossil Amber from the Kaliningrad District, Russia		Froghopper, or spittlebug in amber Family Cercopidae Pliocene to Pleistocene Andes Mountains, Colombia