Mileewinae | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
Family: | Cicadellidae |
Subfamily: | Mileewinae Evans, 1947 |
Tribes | |
Mileewinae is a small subfamily in the family Cicadellidae (leafhoppers). It is closely related to Typhlocybinae and contains species that were previously part of Cicadellinae.
Mileewinae leafhoppers are small, slender, and usually quite dark in colouration, with blue and yellow accents. They often rest with their wings unfolded, unlike most leafhoppers. [1]
Members of the subfamily are found feeding on Dicotyledon herbs in the Afrotropical, Indomalayan, Neotropical, and Australian realms. [2]
There are four tribes in the subfamily.
Erected by Evans in 1947. A monotypic tribe found in the Indomalayan realm.
Erected by Evans in 1947. They are found throughout the entire range of the subfamily.
A monotypic tribe erected by Godoy & Webb in 1994.
Erected by Dietrich in 2011
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