Scaphytopiini

Duan, Yani & Zhang, Yalin, 2013, A new leafhopper genus and two new species of the tribe Scaphytopiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China, Zootaxa 3670 (3), pp. 362-370 : 362-363

Scaphytopiini

Scaphytopiini Oman, 1943: 16 . Type genus: Scaphytopius Ball, 1931 .

Remarks. Scaphytopiini can be recognized by the gena not incised and visible behind the eye in dorsal view (except Proceps Mulsant & Rey, 1855 , also included in the tribe by Dmitriev (2002) based on nymphal characters) (Plate I: C). In addition, the following characters are present in this tribe but are not universal or unique: long pointed head; elongate and narrow frontoclypeus; forewing with vermiculate pattern and/or reflexed costal veins; aedeagus disassociated from connective with paired (sometimes fused) pseudostyles and paired gonopores.

Scaphytopiini is usually characterized by the gena not incised and visible behind the eye in dorsal view. However, this character has probably arisen several times independently. Phylogenetic analyses of Deltocephalinae suggest that Scaphytopiini is not monophyletic, further study of its classification is needed ( Zahniser & Dietrich, 2010).

PLATE I. Xenovarta lui sp. n. A: habitus, dorsal view; B: habitus, lateral view; C: head and thorax, dorsal view; D: face; E: forewing; F & G: male segments X–XI, lateral and dorsal view, respectively.