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Tribe Athysanini

Hopper [Orientus ishidae?] ID Request - Orientus ishidae Japanese Leafhopper - Orientus ishidae Saddleback Leafhopper - Colladonus clitellarius Fitchana vitellina - male Leafhopper - Bandara Saddleback Leafhopper - Colladonus clitellarius CASTYPE 02189 - Eutettix nitens CASTYPE 13889 - Colladonus pseudotsugae
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (True Hoppers)
Infraorder Cicadomorpha (Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers)
Superfamily Membracoidea (Leafhoppers and Treehoppers)
Family Cicadellidae (Typical Leafhoppers)
Subfamily Deltocephalinae
Tribe Athysanini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Phrynomorphini Kirkaldy 1907, Thamnotettigini Distant 1908, Euscelini Van Duzee 1917, Anoterostemmini Haupt 1929, Bobacellini Kusnezov 1929, Platymetopiini Haupt 1929, Colladonini Bliven 1955, Cerrillini Linnavuori 1975, Allygidiina Dmitriev 2006
Numbers
42(?) genera in our area, >1800 spp. in ~300 genera total(1)
Range
cosmopolitan
Habitat
nearly all terrestrial ecosystems
Food
wide variety of eudicots and occasionally grasses and sedges
Remarks
Polyphyletic tribe, pretty much "Deltocephalinae incertae sedis". The earlier subtribes have all been found artificial, except for Cicadulina, now elevated to tribal status. The Athysanus-group is mostly monophyletic. Deltocephalini & Paralimnini are consdered monophyletic.