Genus

Scaphetus Evans, 1966

Descendants and synonyms

Scaphetus Evans, 1966a: 237.
type species by original designation Scaphetus brunneus Evans, 1966
Scaphetus Evans, 1966 (classified as Deltocephali Fieber, 1869) in Oman, Knight & Nielson, 1990a: 249.

Scaphetus Evans, 1966 (classified as Athysanini Van Duzee, 1892) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 44.
Scaphetus Evans, 1966 (incertae sedis in Scaphoideini Oman, 1943) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 27.

Evans, J.W. (1966a) The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Cicadelloidea and Cercopoidea). Memoirs of the Australian Museum, 12, 1–347.
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 Scaphetus Evans, 1966

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

concatenation of Scaphoideus + Platyretus

No descendants observations found