Genus

Egenus Oman, 1938

Descendants and synonyms

Egenus Oman, 1938b: 363.
type species by original designation Egenus acuminatus Oman, 1938
Egenus Oman, 1938 (classified as Hecalini Distant, 1908) in Oman, Knight & Nielson, 1990a: 208.

Egenus Oman, 1938 (classified as Athysanini Van Duzee, 1892) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 42.
Egenus Oman, 1938 (classified as Pendarini Dmitriev, 2009) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 21.

Oman, P.W. (1938b) A generic revision of American Bythoscopinae and South American Jassinae. The Kansas University Science Bulletin, 24(16), 343–420. [1936]
Oman, P.W., Knight, W.J. & Nielson, M.W. (1990a) Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae): a bibliography, generic check-list and index to the world literature 1956-1985. CAB International Institute of Entomology, Wallingford, UK. (iv) + 368 pp.

Zahniser, J.N. & Dietrich, C.H. (2013a) A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 45, 1–211. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.45
Zahniser, J.N., Dietrich, C.H., Cao, Y.-H., Dmitriev, D.A. & Pinedo-Escatel, J.A. (2026) New tribal placements, reinstatements and synonymies in the leafhopper subfamily Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 1035, 1–51. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1035.3171

type species by original designation of Egenus Oman, 1938

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: egenus (indigent, needy)

No descendants observations found