Chiasmini

Chiasmini
Exitianus exitiosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadellidae
Subfamily: Deltocephalinae
Tribe: Chiasmini
Distant, 1908
Synonyms
  • Doraturini Emeljanov, 1962
  • Listrophorini Boulard, 1971
  • Paraphrodini Linnavuori, 1979

Chiasmini is a tribe of leafhoppers in the subfamily Deltocephalinae. Chiasmini contains 21 genera and over 300 species. Some species of Chiasmini in the genus Nephotettix are agricultural pests and transmit rice Tungrovirus in southeast Asia.[1][2]

Genera

The following described genera have been placed in Chiasmini:[1]

  1. Aconura Lethierry, 1876
  2. Aconurella Ribaut, 1948
  3. Athysanella Baker, 1898
  4. Baileyus Singh-Pruthi, 1930
  5. Chiasmus Mulsant & Rey, 1855 - type genus
  6. Doratura Sahlberg, 1871
  7. Doraturopsis Lindberg, 1935
  8. Driotura Osborn & Ball, 1898
  9. Exitianus Ball, 1929
  10. Gurawa Distant, 1908
  11. Icaia Linnavuori, 1973
  12. Leofa Distant, 1918
  13. Listrophora Boulard, 1971
  14. Nephoris Jacobi, 1912
  15. Nephotettix Matsumura, 1902
  16. Omaranus Distant, 1918
  17. Paraphrodes Linnavuori, 1979
  18. Picchusteles Linnavuori & DeLong, 1976
  19. Protochiasmus Zahniser, 2010
  20. Stenogiffardia Evans, 1977
  21. Zahniserius Duan & Zhang, 2012

References

  1. 1 2 Zahniser, James N; Dietrich, Chris (2013-05-29). "A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy (45). doi:10.5852/ejt.2013.45. ISSN 2118-9773.
  2. ↑ Zahniser, James N; Dietrich, Christopher H (2015-06-25). "Phylogeny, evolution, and historical biogeography of the grassland leafhopper tribe Chiasmini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175 (3): 473–495. doi:10.1111/zoj.12292. ISSN 0024-4082.
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