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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Tribe Athysanini

Leafhopper - Athysanus argentarius leafhopper - Allygidius atomarius Silver Leafhopper - Athysanus argentarius Colladonus clitellarius ? - Colladonus clitellarius lateral - Aplanusiella utahensis Leafhopper ID - Fitchana vitellina leafhopper – Genus Bandara? - Bandara Hopper - Aligia
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.