Genus

Afrosus Linnavuori, 1959

Descendants and synonyms

Palus (Afrosus) Linnavuori, 1959b: 93.
type species by original designation Cicadula unimaculata Naudé, 1926
Afrosus Linnavuori, 1959 in Emeljanov, 1966a: 111.

Palus (Afrosus) Linnavuori, 1959 (classified as Deltocephali Fieber, 1869) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 64.
Palus (Afrosus) Linnavuori, 1959 (classified as Paralimnusaria Distant, 1908) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 19.

Emeljanov, A.F. (1966a) New Palearctic and certain Nearctic leafhoppers (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha). [Новые палеарктические и некоторые неарктические цикадовые (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha)]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 45(1), 95–133. [in Russian; translated into English in Entomological Review, Washington, 45, 53–74]
Linnavuori, R.E. (1959b) Revision of the Neotropical Deltocephalinae and some related subfamilies (Homoptera). Annales Zoologici Societatis Zoologicae-Botanicae Fennicae 'Vanamo', 20(1), 1–370.

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 Afrosus Linnavuori, 1959

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

from Africa + Airosus

No descendants observations found