Genus

Phlepsanus Oman, 1949

Descendants and synonyms

Phlepsanus Oman, 1949a: 140.
type species by original designation Phlepsius nigrifrons Ball, 1905
Phlepsanus Oman, 1949 (classified as Platymetopiina Haupt, 1929) in Hamilton, 1975b: 495.

Phlepsanus Oman, 1949 (classified as Athysanini Van Duzee, 1892) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 43.
Phlepsanus Oman, 1949 (classified as Phlepsiini Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 29.

Oman, P.W. (1949a) The Nearctic leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). A generic classification and check list. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, 3, 1–253.
Hamilton, K.G.A. (1975b) Review of the tribal classification of the leafhopper subfamily Aphrodinae (Deltocephalinae of authors) of the Holarctic region (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 107, 477–498.

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 Phlepsanus Oman, 1949

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Phlepsius + -anus (related to)

No descendants observations found