Animalia → Arthropoda → Insecta → Pterygota → Hemiptera → Auchenorrhyncha → Cicadomorpha → Membracoidea → Membracidae → Centrotinae
Monobelini Wallace and Deitz, 2004
Selected references
Wallace and Deitz 2004a
Taxon images
Monobelini
Distribution
Diagnostic characters
Pronotum without suprahumeral horns; posterior process concealing scutellum medially (Brachycentrotus and Monocentrus) or entirely (Monobeloides). Metathoracic femur with ab- and adlateral cucullate setae and extra cucullate setae at apex (exceptions: Brachycentrotus and Braxtonota without extra cucullate setae apically). Abdomen with anterior tergal borders modified into irregular ridges.
Chromosome numbers
Unknown.
Taxonomic constituents
Brachycentrotus Metcalf and Bruner, 1926 Metcalf and Bruner, 1926
Braxtonota Dietrich, 2008 Dietrich, 2008
Monobeloides Ramos, 1979 Ramos, 1979
Monobelus Stål, 1866 Stål, 1866
Prepared by
Matthew S. Wallace and Lewis L. Deitz, 5 September 2011.