Evacanthinae is a subfamily in the family Cicadellidae (leafhoppers).

Evacanthinae
Evacanthus interruptus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadellidae
Subfamily: Evacanthinae
Metcalf, 1939
Tribes

Balbillini
Evacanthini
Nirvanini
Pagaroniini
Pentoffiini

Evacanthus nigramericanus

Distribution

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Members of Evacanthinae are found worldwide and are on every continent except for Antarctica.

Tribes and genera

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There are five tribes in the subfamily, some of which were subfamilies of their own.[1]

Balbillini

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Erected by Baker in 1923. They are found in the Afrotropical and Indomalayan realms. Their colour is mostly dull, being yellowish to greyish in appearance.

Evacanthini

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Erected by Metcalf in 1939. They are distributed across most of the Northern Hemisphere and into the Indomalayan realm.

Nirvanini

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Erected by Baker in 1923. They are distributed mostly throughout the Southern Hemisphere, but species have spread globally. This tribe previously made up the subfamily Nirvaninae.

Pagaroniini

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Erected by Anufriev in 1978.

Pentoffiini

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Erected by Wang, Dietrich & Zhang, 2017.[1]

Genera without placement.

References

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  1. ^ a b Wang, Yang; Dietrich, Christopher H.; Zhang, Yalin (2017-04-03). "Phylogeny and historical biogeography of leafhopper subfamily Evacanthinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) based on morphological and molecular data". Scientific Reports. 7 (1): 45387. doi:10.1038/srep45387. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 5377372. PMID 28368039.
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