Tribe Drabescini Ishihara, 1953

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• Drabescidae Ishihara, T. 1953. A tentative checklist of the superfamily Cicadelloidea of Japan (Homoptera). Scientific Reports of the Matsuyama Agricultural College 11: 1-72 [23].

  Type genus:

   Drabescus Stål, 1870.

Introduction

The Drabescini were reviewed by Zhang and Webb (1996). They treated the group as a tribe of the Selenocephalinae but Zahniser and Dietrich (2010) moved the group to be a tribe of the Deltocephalinae with two subtribes, the Drabescina and the Paraboloponina. The Drabescina is primarily Asian with one species recorded on Christmas Island and another found along coastal Queensland. The Subtribe Paraboloponina is well represented in the Asian and Pacific regions with three genera in Australia, Carvaka Distant with five species (reviewed by Fletcher & Semeraro (2007)), Dryadomorpha Kirkaldy with two species and the monotypic Nirvanguina Evans found in Papua New Guinea and North Queensland.

Diagnosis

Lateral frontal sutures extending beyond antennal pits to or near ocelli or ocellar vestiges; ocelli never on base of vertex; distance between ocelli less than distance between antennal pits; if sometimes about equidistant, then clypeus much wider distally than basally; ocelli always present; frons short and broad, apex narrower than base; costal margin of wing not expanded basally; head nearly always wider than pronotum; antennal pits placed superior to the middle of the eyes,each with a conspicuous ledge above; clypeus medially carinate; ocelli in a groove on cephalic margin (Ishihara 1953).

General References

Fletcher, M.J. & Semeraro, L. 2007. Genus Carvaka Distant in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Selenocephalinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 46(2): 89-95

Zahniser, J.N. & Dietrich, C.H. 2010. Phylogeny of the leafhopper subfamily Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) based on molecular and morphological data with a revised family-group classification. Systematic Entomology 35(3): 489–511

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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