Eoscarta

Eoscarta
Eoscarta borealis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cercopidae
Subfamily: Cercopinae
Genus: Eoscarta
Breddin, 1902
Type species
Eoscarta eos
Breddin, 1902
Synonyms
  • Vigilantius Distant, 1916
  • Eocarta Jacobi, 1921 (Missp.)
  • Goscarta Schmidt, 1925 (Missp.)
  • Roscarta Lallemand, 1930 (Missp.)
  • Keducarta Schmidt, 1931
  • Keduscarta Lallemand, 1933 (Missp.)
  • Pseudeoscarta Lallemand, 1933
  • †Eoscartoides Matsumura, 1940
  • Eoscartopsis Matsumura, 1940
  • Pseudoscarta Neave, 1940 (Missp.)
  • Esocarta Matsumura, 1940 (Missp.)
  • Euthiaeoscarta Lallemand, 1949
  • Hemieoscarta Lallemand, 1949
  • Paraeoscarta Lallemand, 1949
  • Pseudoeoscarta Lallemand, 1949 (Missp.)

Eoscarta is a genus of froghopper (Cercopidae) with about 50 species distributed in the Oriental region. Species in the genus are identified by a combination of characters that include an elongated pubescent body, highly laterally compressed postclypeus, the hind tibia with a single lateral spur and genital characters of the males.

The genus has been treated widely differently by different workers and is closely related to several other genera like Euryaulax. Species that have been placed in the genus include:

References

  1. ↑ Liang, Ai-Ping; Jiang, Guo-Mei (2007). "Taxonomic Changes in the Oriental Spittlebug Genus Eoscarta Breddin (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Cercopidae)". J. Entomol. Sci. 42 (2): 150–154.