Tribe Batracomorphini Krishnankutty, Dietrich, Dai and Siddappaji, 2016

Museums

Regional Maps

• Batracomorphini Krishnankutty, S.M., Dietrich, C.H., Dai, W. & Siddappaji, M.H. 2016. Phylogeny and historical biogeography of leafhopper subfamily Iassinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with a revised tribal classification based on morphological and molecular data. Systematic Entomology 41: 580–595 [590].
  Zoobank Registration Number:64BD2074-0FF3- 4750-BD0C-EFAF984D1BD7

  Type genus:

   Batracomorphus Lewis, 1834.

Introduction

This tribe was created by Krishnankutty et al. (2016) to include the single genus Batracomorphus which is widespread in the Oriental and Pacific regions.

Diagnosis

Small tomedium-sized, pale green or stramineous leafhoppers; head rounded in profile, without distinctly delimited crown; forewing appendix well developed but not extended around wing apex; hindwing veins R4+5 and M1+2 completely confluent distally;male pygofer with stout setae scattered over distal half, ventral process slender, elongate, apex not falcate; subgenital plate not completely concealed by pregenital sternite, extended nearly as far posterad as pygofer apex; female first valvulae with dorsal sculpturing strigate; second valvulae with two to three widely spaced dorsal teeth (Krishnankutty et al. 2016).

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

Krishnankutty et al. 2016: 587–590

Diagnosis References

Krishnankutty, S.M., Dietrich, C.H., Dai, W. & Siddappaji, M.H. 2016. Phylogeny and historical biogeography of leafhopper subfamily Iassinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with a revised tribal classification based on morphological and molecular data. Systematic Entomology 41: 580–595 [590]

History of changes