Haupt 1929c
Deitz 1975a
McKamey 1998a
Cryan and Deitz 1999a
Cyran and Deitz 1999b
Cyran and Deitz 2000a
Cryan and Deitz 2002a
Cryan and Bartlett 2002a
Godoy, Miranda, and Nishida 2006a
Wallace 2010a
Dietrich 2017a
Flórez-V. 2019a
Animalia → Arthropoda → Insecta → Pterygota → Hemiptera → Auchenorrhyncha → Cicadomorpha → Membracoidea → Membracidae
Stegaspidinae Haupt, 1929
Selected references
Overview
The New World subfamily Stegaspidinae includes two tribes (Stegaspidini and Microcentrini) and a few taxa of uncertain position. The unplaced taxa, all from the West Indies, include the extant genera Antillotolania, Borinctolania, Deiroderes, and Problematode, as well as fossils from Dominican amber, one of which has been described. The diversity of pronotal forms found in this subfamily is extraordinary.
Taxon images
Distribution
Neotropical and Nearctic regions: Argentina north into southern Canada, also Trinidad and the West Indies.
Diagnostic characters
Pronotum simple, horned, foliaceous, inflated, umbellate, or some combination of these; posterior process absent (Antillotolania and Deiroderes) or present, not entirely concealing scutellum, length various, terminating from just over scutellum to beyond abdominal apex. Forewing vein M1+2 shifted toward leading edge of wing; distal m-cu crossvein basad of fork of M (exception: Smerdalea); claval apex acuminate. Abdomen without conspicuous pits.
Taxonomic constituents
Antillotolania Ramos, 1957 Ramos, 1957
Borinctolania Dietrich, 2017 Dietrich, 2017
Deiroderes Ramos, 1957 Ramos, 1957
Microcentrini Deitz, 1975 Deitz, 1975
Problematode Gaiani, 2017 Gaiani, 2017
Stegaspidini Haupt, 1929 Haupt, 1929
Prepared by
Lewis L. Deitz, Jason R. Cryan, Matthew S. Wallace, and Mark J. Rothschild, 13 September 2020.