Subfamily Evacanthinae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Print References · Internet References

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (Free-living Hemipterans)

Superfamily Cicadoidea

Family Cicadellidae (Leafhoppers)

Subfamily Evacanthinae

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

formerly Nirvaninae

includes tribes Balbillini, Evacanthini, Nirvanini, Pagaroniini (see PDF doc by Dietrich, 2005)

Print References

Dietrich, C.H. 2004. Phylogeny of the leafhopper subfamily Evacanthinae with a review of Neotropical species and notes on related groups (Hemiptera: Membracoidea: Cicadellidae). Systematic Entomology, Volume 29, Number 4, October 2004, pp. 455-487.

Internet References

Nirvaninae as junior synonym of Evacanthinae article abstract, October 2004 (C.H. Dietrich, Systematic Entomology, Blackwell Publishing)

tribes of Evacanthinae; PDF doc and key to subfamilies and tribes of Cicadellidae, December 2005 (C.H. Dietrich, Florida Entomologist, Florida Center for Library Automation)

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 8 July, 2006 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod
Last updated 25 July, 2006 - 8:52pm

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