Euscelini – Variety of Life

*Beet leafhopper* Circulifer tenellus, from here.

Belongs within: Cicadellidae.

The Euscelini are a group of small to moderately large leafhoppers with a Y-shaped connective plate. They include the green rice leafhopper Nephotettix virescens, a significant pest of rice crops in eastern Asia.

<==Euscelini [Opsiini, Paralimnini]
    |--Neolimnus aegyptiacus (Matsumura 1908) [=Scaphoideus aegyptiacus]^L61
    |--Sotanus chrissiensis Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |--Aconura flavovirescens (Stål 1855) [=Deltocephalus flavovirescens]^L61
    |--Chiasmus^L61
    |    |--C. hyalinus (Evans 1947) [=Postumus hyalinus]^L61
    |    `--C. varicolor^MC13
    |--Hypacostemma Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    `--*H. viridissima Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |--Basutoia Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    `--*B. brachyptera Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |--Capeolix Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    `--*C. picturatus Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |--Paranoplus Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    `--*P. maculatus Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |--Pachodus Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    `--*P. filigranus Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |--Afroideus Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    `--*A. cruciatus Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |--Houtbayana Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    `--*H. orosioides Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |--Samuraba Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    `--*S. elegans Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |--Phlepsius^L61
    |    |--P. fuscovarius Stål 1864^L61
    |    `--P. tumidus Melichar 1911^L61
    |--Scaphoideus^L61
    |    |--S. cuprescens Naudé 1926^L61
    |    |--S. productus^BM76
    |    `--S. titanus^TKC07
    |--Distantia^L61
    |    |--D. aurea Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    |--D. planifrons Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    `--D. selenocephaloides Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |--Bonaspeia Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    |--*B. straminea Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    |--B. cristata Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    `--B. eriocephala (Cogan 1916) [=Euscelis eriocephalus]^L61
    |--Caffrolix Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    |--*C. patruelis (Stål 1858) [=Athysanus patruelis, Thamnotettix patruelis]^L61
    |    |--C. compater (Stål 1864) [=Thamnotettix compater]^L61
    |    |--C. parvulus Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    `--C. serricauda Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |--Tzitzikamaia Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    |--*T. silvicola Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    |--T. irrorata Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    |--T. longipennis Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    `--T. signaticeps Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |--Circulifer^L61
    |    |--C. karrooensis (Cogan 1916) [=Thamnotettix karrooensis]^L61
    |    |--C. obtusiceps Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |    |--C. pentzia (Cogan 1916) [=Thamnotettix pentzia]^L61
    |    `--C. tenellus (Baker 1896) [=Thamnotettix tenellus]^L61
    |--Nephotettix^L61
    |    |--N. apicalis (Motschulsky 1859) [=Pediopsis apicalis]^L61
    |    |--N. bipunctata^BM76
    |    |--N. cincticeps^JS03
    |    |--N. nigropictus^JS03
    |    |--N. plebeius Kirkaldy 1906^K08
    |    `--N. virescens^JS03
    |--Paralimnus taeniatus Linnavuori 1961^L61
    |--Soractellus^GF13
    |--Mayawa capitata^{GF13, MC13}
    |--Hishimonus festivus Knight 1970^{GF13, JG19}
    |--Opsius^L61
    |    |--O. glaucovirens (Stål 1858) [=Bythoscopus glaucovirens, Thamnotettix glaucovirens]^L61
    |    `--O. stactogalus^BM76
    `--Orosius^CGW91
         |--O. argentatus^S94
         |--O. canberrensis^MC13
         `--O. orientalis^MC13

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[BM76] Bohart, R. M., & A. S. Menke. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World. University of California Press: Berkeley.

[CGW91] Carver, M., G. F. Gross & T. E. Woodward. 1991. Hemiptera (bugs, leafhoppers, cicadas, aphids, scale insects etc.) In: CSIRO. The Insects of Australia: A textbook for students and research workers 2^nd ed. vol. 1 pp. 429–509. Melbourne University Press: Carlton (Victoria).

James, D. J., P. T. Green, W. F. Humphreys & J. C. Z. Woinarski. 2019. Endemic species of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. Records of the Western Australian Museum 34 (2): 55–114.

[JS03] Jung, H.-Y., T. Sawayanagi, P. Wongkaew, S. Kakizawa, H. Nishigawa, W. Wei, K. Oshima, S. Miyata, M. Ugaki, T. Hibi & S. Namba. 2003. ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma oryzae’, a novel phytoplasma taxon associated with rice yellow dwarf disease. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 1925–1929.

[K08] Kirkaldy, G. W. 1908. A catalogue of the Hemiptera of Fiji. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 33: 345–391, pl. 4.

[L61] Linnavuori, R. 1961. Hemiptera (Homoptera): Cicadellidae. In: Hanström, B., P. Brinck & G. Rudebeck (eds) South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950–1951 vol. 8 pp. 452–486. Almqvist & Wiksell: Uppsala.

[MC13] Majer, J. D., S. K. Callan, K. Edwards, N. R. Gunawardene & C. K. Taylor. 2013. Baseline survey of the terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Barrow Island. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 83: 13–112.

[TKC07] Tixier, M.-S., S. Kreiter & B. Cheval. 2007. Vineyard colonisation by predaceous mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) living in surrounding vegetation. A three year study in the south of France. In: Morales-Malacara, J. B., V. M. Behan-Pelletier, E. Ueckermann, T. M. Pérez, E. G. Estrada-Venegas & M. Badii (eds) Acarology XI: Proceedings of the International Congress pp. 475–487. Instituto de Biología and Faculdad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Sociedad Latinoamericana de Acarología: México.

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