Genus

Ascius DeLong, 1943

Descendants and synonyms

Ascius DeLong, 1943f: 250.
type species by original designation Ascius triangularis DeLong, 1943
Scaphytopius (Vertanus) Hepner, 1946a: 87.
type species by original designation Scaphytopius (Vertanus) ulcus Hepner, 1946

Ascius DeLong, 1943 (classified as Platymetopiina Haupt, 1929) in Hamilton, 1975b: 494.
Scaphytopius (Vertanus) Hepner, 1946 (classified as Platymetopiina Haupt, 1929) in Hamilton, 1975b: 496.

DeLong, D.M. (1943f) A new genus (Ascius) and two new species of leafhoppers closely related to Flexamia (Homoptera, Cicadellidae). The Ohio Journal of Science, 43, 250–251.
Dmitriev, D.A. (2006b) Larvae of leafhoppers of the subfamily Deltocephalinae (Homoptera, Cicadellidae) of European Russia and adjacent territories. IV. Tribe Athysanini. [Личинки цикадовых подсем. Deltocephalinae (Homoptera, Cicadellidae) Европейской части России и сопредельных территорий. IV. Триба Athysanini]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 85(1), 75–121. [in Russian; translated into English in Entomological Review, Washington, 86(1), 11–48]

Hepner, L.W. (1946a) A new subgenus and several new species of Scaphytopius (Homoptera-Cicadellidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 19(3), 87–109.
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.

type species by original designation of Ascius DeLong, 1943

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: ἀ- (no) + σκιά (shaddow)

No descendants observations found