Evacanthinae

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Evacanthinae
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Evacanthus interruptus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadellidae
Subfamily: Evacanthinae
Metcalf, 1939
Tribes

Balbillini
Evacanthini
Nirvanini
Pagaroniini
Pentoffiini

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Evacanthus nigramericanus

Evacanthinae is a subfamily in the family Cicadellidae (leafhoppers).

Distribution

Members of Evacanthinae are found worldwide and are on every continent except for Antarctica.

Tribes and genera

There are five tribes in the subfamily, some of which were subfamilies of their own. [1]

Balbillini

Erected by Baker in 1923. They are found in the Afrotropical and Indomalayan realms. Their colour is mostly dull, being yellowish to greyish in appearance.

Evacanthini

Erected by Metcalf in 1939. They are distributed across most of the Northern Hemisphere and into the Indomalayan realm.

Nirvanini

Erected by Baker in 1923. They are distributed mostly throughout the Southern Hemisphere, but species have spread globally. This tribe previously made up the subfamily Nirvaninae.

Pagaroniini

Erected by Anufriev in 1978.

Pentoffiini

Erected by Wang, Dietrich & Zhang, 2017. [1]

Incertae sedis

Genera without placement.

References

  1. 1 2 Wang, Yang; Dietrich, Christopher H.; Zhang, Yalin (2017-04-03). "Phylogeny and historical biogeography of leafhopper subfamily Evacanthinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) based on morphological and molecular data". Scientific Reports. 7 (1) 45387. doi: 10.1038/srep45387 . ISSN   2045-2322. PMC   5377372 . PMID   28368039.
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