Subtribe Drabescina Ishihara, 1953

Museums

Regional Maps

• Drabescidae Ishihara, T. 1953. A tentative checklist of the superfamily Cicadelloidea of Japan (Homoptera). Scientific Reports of the Matsuyama Agricultural College 11: 1-72 [6].

  Type genus:

   Drabescus Stål, 1870.

Introduction

Only two genera were included in the Drabescina (as tribe Drabescini) by Zhang and Webb (1996) of which only one, Drabescus Stål, occurs in Australia. The subtribe is almost entirely SE Asian with a single species in Africa.

Diagnosis

Fore margin of head smooth or irregularly striated, sometimes with a keeled epistomal suture; clypeus rugose; antennae moderately long and highly placed; antennal ledge strong; dorsal surface of fore tibia distinctly flattened; tentorium falcate; fore wing appendix broad (Zhang & Webb 1996).

ID Keys

Zhang & Webb 1996: 7
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

Zhang, Y. & Webb, M.D. 1996. A revised classification of the Asian and Pacific selenocephaline leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 65(1): 1-103 [23]

General References

Zhang, Y. & Webb, M.D. 1996. A revised classification of the Asian and Pacific selenocephaline leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 65(1): 1-103

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