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Evacanthinae

Insecta - Hemiptera - Cicadellidae

Taxonomy
Evacanthinae was named by Metcalf (1939). It is extant. Its type is Evacanthus.

It was assigned to Cicadellidae by Dietrich et al. (2017), Dmitriev (2020) and Borodin and Borodina (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1923Nirvaninae Baker p. 353
1939Evacanthinae Metcalf
1995Nirvaninae Dietrich and Vega
2017Evacanthinae Dietrich et al. p. 64
2020Evacanthinae Dmitriev p. 38
2021Evacanthinae Borodin and Borodina p. 165

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Clareocercaria
—Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
—Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderAuchenorrhyncha()
infraorderCicadomorphaEvans 1946
superfamilyMembracoideaRafinesque 1815
familyCicadellidae()
subfamilyEvacanthinaeMetcalf 1939
subfamilyEvacanthinaeMetcalf 1939

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Subfm. Evacanthinae Metcalf 1939
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Tr. Evacanthini Metcalf 1939
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G. Evacanthus Peletier and Serville 1825
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†Evacanthus bellus Meunier 1914
Tr. Nirvanini Baker 1923
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G. Jassoqualus Kramer 1964
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†Jassoqualus hispaniolensis Dietrich and Vega 1995
Invalid names: Nirvaninae Baker 1923 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chattian to the top of the Langhian or 28.10000 to 13.82000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 23.03 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chattian28.1 - 23.03France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) Euacanthus bellus (122487)
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Jassoqualus hispaniolensis (122473)