Tribe Cicadellini Essig & Usinger, 1940

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cicadellini Essig, E.O. & Usinger, R.L. 1940. The life and works of Edward Payson Van Duzee. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 16: 145-177 [164].

  Type genus:

   Cicadella Latreille, 1817.

Introduction

All the Australian Cicadellinae are in this tribe which is otherwise pantropically diverse, including a particularly rich fauna in New Guinea. Within Australia, there are three genera, Cofana Melichar and Conoguinula Young in the tropical regions and Ishidaella Matsumura which has a number of smaller blue-black and yellow species in temperate regions, including suburban gardens.

Diagnosis

Posterior legs at rest with knees nearly always attaining posterior proepimeral margins and either male plates or pygofer, or both, with macrosetae or with microsetae not evenly dispersed; antennal ledges usually not protuberant in dorsal aspect (Young 1968).

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

Diagnosis References

Young, D.A. 1968. Taxonomic Study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) Part 1 Proconiini. Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum Bulletin 261: 1–287 [17]

History of changes