Tribe Eupelicini Sahlberg, 1871

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eupelicides Sahlberg. J.R. 1871. Ofversigt af Finlands och den Skandinaviska hälfons Cicadariae. I. Notiser ur Sâllskapets pro Fauna et Flora Fennica Förhandlingar 9(12): 1-506 [72].

  Type genus:

   Eupelix Le Peletiere & Serville, 1825.

Introduction

Formerly regarded as a subfamily, this group was incorporated into the Deltocephalinae by Dietrich & Rakitov (2002) following analyses by Dietrich et al. (2001). The tribe is almost cosmopolitan in distribution, although apparently absent from the Neotropical region, and is divided into three subtribes only one of which, the seed-mimicking Paradorydiina, is found in Australia.

Diagnosis

The narrowly elongate head and tegmina of the insects in the Paradorydiina, the only subtribe of the tribe of Eupelicini found in Australia, make this group easily differentiated from all other Australian leafhoppers except the similarly narrow Cephalelini (Ulopinae). These two groups can be differentiated by the presence of well-developed antennal ledges in Cephalelini, these being absent from Paradorydiina.

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2009 and updates). Key to the leafhoppers and treehoppers of Australia and neighbouring areas (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/index.html

General References

Dietrich, C.H., Rakitov, R.A., Holmes, J.L. & Black W.C. 2001. Phylogeny of the major lineages of Membracoidea (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha) based on 28S rDNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 18(2): 293–305

Dietrich, C.H. & Rakitov, R.A. 2002. Some remarkable new deltocephaline leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from the Amazonian rainforest canopy. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 110(1): 1–48 [3]

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