Tribe Euacanthellini Evans, 1966

Euacanthella palustris Evans.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Euacanthellini Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [142].

  Type genus:

   Euacanthella Evans, 1938.

Introduction

Evans (1966) established this tribe for the genus Euacanthella within the subfamily Aphrodinae without providing a diagnosis for the tribe. In 1974, he raised the tribe to subfamily level, again without providing a diagnosis. Hamilton (1999) recognised that the Euacanthellinae comprised two tribes, one of which he described as new. Only three species of the Euacanthellini are known, two endemic to Australia and one occurring in Australia and New Zealand.

Diagnosis

Euacanthellini are all medium sized to largish leafhoppers found in grasslands and pastures. The tegmina are either brachypterous or extend to about the 8th abdominal segment. The head is triangular with the sides of the frontoclypeus narrowly visible in dorsal view. The second hind tarsomere has an oblique pecten.

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

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347

Evans, J.W. 1974. New Caledonian leafhoppers and the systematic position of Kosmiopelix Kirkaldy and Euacanthella Evans (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 16(2-3): 165-175

Hamilton, K.G.A. 1999. The ground-dwelling leafhoppers Myerslopiidae, new family, and Sagmatiini, new tribe (Homoptera : Membracoidea). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13(2): 207-235

History of changes