Subfamily Achilinae Stål, 1866

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• Achilinae Stål, C. 1866. Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. Hemiptera Africana 4: 1-276 [130].

  Type genus:

   Achilus Kirby, 1818.

Introduction

The subfamily Achilinae was recognised by Metcalf (1938) who separated the two genera Apateson and Ateson into a new subfamily Apatesoninae on the basis of the tegmina being held vertically with the apices opposed in those two genera. Fennah (1950) did not recognise any subfamilies of Achilidae but treated all the groups, including Apatesonini, as tribes. Emeljanov (1991, 1992) reduced the family Achilidae (as recognised by Fennah (1950) with its included tribes) to the subfamily Achilinae (which he credited to Stål 1866) and added two other subfamilies, one of which had previously been the family Achilixiidae and the other being a new tribe the Bebaiotinae.

All the Australian Achilidae belong to the Achilinae.

Diagnosis

Abdominal sternites not separated along meson. Abdomen lacking special structures in pleural area. (Emeljanov 1991, 1992)

Diagnosis References

Emeljanov, A.F. 1991. Toward the problem of the limits and subdivisions of Achilidae (Homoptera, Cicadina). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 71(2): 373-393

Emeljanov, A.F. 1992. Toward the problem of the limits and subdivisions of Achilidae (Homoptera, Cicadina). Entomological Review (English translation of Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie) Entomological Review 71(1): 53-73 [English translation of Emeljanov (1991) Entomologicheskoye Obozreniye 71(2): 373-393.]

General References

Emeljanov, A.F. 1991. Toward the problem of the limits and subdivisions of Achilidae (Homoptera, Cicadina). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 71(2): 373-393

Emeljanov, A.F. 1992. Toward the problem of the limits and subdivisions of Achilidae (Homoptera, Cicadina). Entomological Review (English translation of Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie) Entomological Review 71(1): 53-73 [English translation of Emeljanov (1991) Entomologicheskoye Obozreniye 71(2): 373-393.]

Fennah, R.G. 1950. A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1(1): 1-170

Metcalf, Z.P. 1938. The Fulgorina of Barro Colorado and other parts of Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 82: 277-423 [371]

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