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Photo#129475
New Hopper

New Hopper
Burnaby Lake Park, Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada
July 21, 2007
Size: 5mm
Found on Mountain Ash.

Frassed
Moved from Eurymelinae.

frass
without any follow-up, it is impossible to use this photo

Moved

leafhopper (subfamily Eurymelinae)
A teneral specimen - so soft it can't even stand up properly. The leg spines are scarcely visible, but they are definitely there; and there are not stout spurs on the hind leg, which characterize spittlebugs.

Go back and see if you can find it again, now that it has had time to color up and look more like an identifiable specimen. The short head suggests Idiocerus or Agallia.

 
subfamily status
We have Idiocerus species listed under subfamily Idiocerinae, and Agallia species listed under subfamily Megophthalminae.

How does Eurymelinae fit into this picture? Does it incorporate both of these genera and the others currently placed in the above subfamilies at BugGuide?

 
Dr. Hamilton has answered below
but we're still not sure how we want to arrange the taxonomy here at bugguide. Do we want to demote those subfamilies to tribes?

 
I had used the classification
of mostly C.H. Dietrich to make the subfamily pages at BugGuide (see links on Cicadellidae page). Dietrich gives the distribution of [recently redefined?] Eurymelinae as Australia and New Guinea, which doesn't fit with what Andy said, so I decided to do nothing.

If the image can't be IDed to species, my preference is to go along with the idea you suggested for Moths some time ago (place it at one of 3 locations: genus, family, or Moths base page - equivalent to order in this case). Since the genus is unknown here, the next level up is family.

 
Have we ever come to a conclu
Have we ever come to a conclusion about the taxonomy? If the subfamily is definitely redundant to some extent with the current taxonomic arrangement on BugGuide, should this image just get moved up to family so we don't have the subfamily sitting in the middle of the "Browse" view?

 
Eurmelinae
This subfamily includes the various tribes (Megophthalmini = Agallini, Idiocerini, Macropsini etc.) that all have very short heads and facial ocelli. Many authors raise the included tribes to subfamily or even family rank, which seems unnecessary since they are obviously related, and have only one tribe each. But you may follow whatever classification system works best for you.

 
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Good question, I wondered the same thing. I just went with what Dr. Hamilton said.

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