Stegelytrini

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Stegelytrini
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadellidae
Subfamily: Deltocephalinae
Tribe: Stegelytrini
Baker, 1915
Genera

300, see text


Stegelytrini is a tribe of leafhoppers in the subfamily Deltocephalinae. There are 30 genera and over 80 species in Stegelytrini. Some authors consider Stegelytrini to be its own subfamily, but Zahniser & Dietrich (2013) consider it to be the earliest divergent lineage of Deltocephalinae. [1]

Genera

There are currently 30 described genera in Stegelytrini: [1] [2]

References

  1. 1 2 Zahniser, James N; Dietrich, Chris (2013-05-29). "A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy (45). doi: 10.5852/ejt.2013.45 . ISSN   2118-9773.
  2. WEI, XINGTAO; XING, JICHUN; WEBB, MICHAEL D. (2019-03-26). "Key to species of the genus Pachymetopius Matsumura (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Stegelytrini ) with description of a new species from China" . Zootaxa. 4571 (2): 290. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4571.2.12. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   31715825. S2CID   108914113.