genus

Chiasmodolon Dietrich, 1990

Descendants and synonyms

Chiasmodolon Dietrich, 1990 in Dietrich & McKamey, 1990a: 217.
type species by original designation Chiasmodolon bhagwandorum Dietrich, 1990
Chiasmodolon Dietrich, 1990 (classified as Chiasmodolini Xue, Dietrich & Zhang, 2020) in Xue, Dietrich & Zhang, 2020: 696.

Dietrich, C.H. & McKamey, S.H. (1990a) Three new idiocerine leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) from Guyana with notes on ant-mutualism and subsociality. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 92(2), 214–223.
Xue, Q.-Q., Dietrich, C.H. & Zhang, Y.-L. (2020) Phylogeny and classification of the leafhopper subfamily Eurymelinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) inferred from molecules and morphology. Systematic Entomology, 45(3), 687–702. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12425

type species by original designation of Chiasmodolon Dietrich, 1990

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: χίασμα (chiasma, diagonal cross) + δόλων (dagger) (refers to the crossed knife-like structures on the dorsum of the male pygofer)

No descendants observations found