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Hi,

I have photographed this small insect in the soil in a deciduous forest near Paris. I thought at first it was a Issus but when I looked closer at the eyes (not composed) it was clearly not that.
Rather small (3-4mm).
Any idea what it could be? A homopteran?
Thanks for helping,

FRV

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another view

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Hi FRV, very interesting! I'm quite confident it's a nymph of the Delphacidae - an example see here: http://www.britis...dalei.html.
The white processes at the derrière is wax? Or is it a mould?

Greetings, Eric

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Thank you Eric, I'm quite sure the white process at the rear of the abdomen is not mould. Wax? I don't know. Someone on a FB entomological group told me exactly the same thing that it could be a Delphacidae, so, two independant persons having the same opinion : it must be correct! Is the small eyes an ancestral character?

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Yes, FRV, the eyes... Maybe it's Cixiidae (although in a family with Asiraca everything can happen): https://www.flick.../501057159.
This one seems to have smaller eyes and waxy processes and it may be the "subterranean immature of Reptalus panzeri".
From:
Revealing the identity of some early described European Cixiidae...
MICHAEL D. WEBB, ALEX J. RAMSAY & VALÉRIE A. LEMAÎTRE

Greetings, Eric

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Thank you Eric, surer to stick to the family : Cixiidae!
FRV