Aufidus Stål, 1863

Cesne, Maxime Le & Soulier-Perkins, Adeline, 2021, Two new species of Aufidus (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) from New Guinea, Zootaxa 4927 (1), pp. 143-150 : 144

Genus Aufidus Stål, 1863

Aufidus Stål, 1863: 594 .

Type species: Aufidus trifasciatus Stål, 1863

Aufidellus Kirkaldy, 1906 , Distant 1908: 97

Aufiterna Kirkaldy, 1906 , Distant 1908: 97

Notoscarta Breddin, 1902 , Jacobi 1921: 48

When Stål described Aufidus , he used the following characters to characterise the genus: ocelli really close to each other, a sexangular pronotum, veins of tegmina distinct, protibia a bit longer than profemur and a strong spine around middle of metatibia. No other strong characters are added in the later works ( Lallemand 1912; Distant 1916; Jacobi 1921) until the description of Aufidius egregius Schmidt, 1928 . Here Schmidt mentioned a dimple on the protibia. In 1939, Lallemand described 3 Aufidus species and each time described the dimple as being present. In 1949, in his Rhinaulacini key, he used this character to separate the sub-tribe Aufidina from the others, especially from the Colsina, which can occur in a common area, Java and Borneo. In the redescription of the genus he added details such as postclypeus in lateral view making no acute angle, rostrum relatively short, a large pronotum without any keels, Cu and R fused on first third of tegmen, R bifurcate at level of second third.

The Aufidus have a really large distribution area that stretches from Java to the Samoa islands ( Lallemand 1949).