Classification of the Eurybrachidae

 [formative draft]

Note: Classification from FLOW (Bourgoin 2018), which essentially follows the Metcalf catalog and Schmidt (2008). [I will add a narrative here in the future]

Family Eurybrachidae Stal, 1862

 Family Eurybrachidae Stal, 1862
Subfamily Eurybrachinae Stal, 1862
Tribe Eurybrachini Stal, 1862
Eurybrachys Guérin-Méneville, 1834
Messena Stål, 1861
Nicidus Stål, 1858
Purusha Distant, 1906
Thessitus Walker, 1862

Tribe Frutini Schmidt 1908: 242, 243
Chalia Walker, 1858 (= Frutis Stål, 1862; Constant 2007)

Tribe Loxocephalini Schmidt, 1908: 242, 243
= Aspidioxyni Lallemand, 1950: 152; syn. by Constant 2004.
Amychodes Karsch, 1895 (= Aspidioxys Lallemand, 1950)
Klapperibrachys Constant, 2006
Loxocephala Schaum, 1850
Macrobrachys Lallemand, 1950
Nesiana Metcalf, 1952
Nilgiribrachys Constant, 2007
Parancyra Synave, 1968
Paropioxys Karsch, 1890

 

Subfamily Platybrachinae Schmidt 1908: 242, 243 (to subfamily by  Metcalf, 1952: 228)
Tribe Ancyrini Schmidt 1908: 242, 244.
Ancyra White, 1845

Tribe Dardini Schmidt 1908: 242, 243.
Dardus Stål, 1859
Ricanocephalus Melichar, 1898

Tribe Platybrachini Schmidt 1908
[The main features of the Platybrachyini as defined by Schmidt (1908) are: (1) clavus of the tegmina closed, and (2) no infra-ocular spine.]
Aspidonitys Karsch, 1895
Chewobrachys Constant, 2008
Elthenus Jacobi, 1928
Euronotobrachys Kirkaldy, 1906
Fletcherobrachys Constant, 2006
Gedrosia Stål, 1862
Gelastopsis Kirkaldy, 1906
Hackerobrachys Constant, 2006
Kirkaldybrachys Constant, 2006
Loisobrachys Constant, 2008
Lyncilia Stål, 1863
Maeniana Metcalf, 1952
Maon Fennah, 1964
Mesonitys Schmidt, 1908
Metoponitys Karsch, 1890
Navorillina Fennah, 1964
Neoplatybrachys Lallemand, 1950
Nirus Jacobi, 1928
Olonia Stål, 1862
Platybrachys Stål, 1859
Stalobrachys Constant, 2018 (type species Olonia alboapicata Jacobi, 1928, monotypic, Australia)
Usambrachys Constant, 2005
Yarrana Distant, 1906

Eurybrachidae incertae sedis
Amalaberga† Szwedo & Wappler, 2006
Gastererion Perroud & Montrouzier, 1864 (description based on nymph)

References

[may be incomplete; intended to include all references impacting nomenclature at genus-level or above, but – because Eurybrachidae is a small group – includes many with species descriptions]

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Constant, J. 2005. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (II). Description of the new genus Usambrachys, review of the genus Parancyra Synave, 1968 and Neoplatybrachys Lallemand, 1950 and key to the Afrotropical genera (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Eurybrachydae). Bulletin de l’Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie 75: 29-39.

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