Abstract
Seven species of Leafhoppers belong to the tribe: Idiocerini of Subfamily Eurymelinae in Family Cicadellidae, are reported from Sri Lanka based on the field study. Four species of <em>Idioscopus, </em>and each one<em> </em>species of genera <em>Amritotus, Busoniomimus </em>and <em>Jogocerus</em> were described with their distribution in the country. <em>Busoniomimus manjunathi</em> Viraktamath and Viraktamath and <em>Jogocerus freytagi</em>were described for the first time from Sri Lanka.
Highlights
Eurymelinae is one of the largest subfamily of arboreal leafhoppers
Idioscopus unimaculatus I.nagpurensis, I. clypealis, I. nitidulus, and Amritodus brevistylus, The distribution of all species and the morphological characteristics of first three species are described in this paper, with illustrations
I. nagpurensis is more prevalent in the Dry zone area of Sri Lanka than the wet zone and associated with many other tree crops apart from mango (Gnaneswaran, et al, 2007)
Summary
Eurymelinae is one of the largest subfamily of arboreal leafhoppers Species of this group feed on a wide variety of trees and shrubs, including several of economic importance with some considered agricultural pests (Fletcher & Dangerfield, 2002; Gnaneswaran et al, 2007). Tribe Idiocerini was earlier placed as Subfamily Idiocerniae of family Cicadellidae, confirmed as one of the tribe in Subfamily Eurymelinae, includes the species of 59 genera (Xue, et al, 2020). They distributed Aftrotropical, Australian, Madagascar, Nearctic, Oriental and Palaearctic regions. When this study was planned to explore the members of Idiocerini in Sri Lanka, the Tribe was represented by only 05species of 03 genera (Melichar, 1903, Distant, 1908; Viraktamath, and Parvathi, 2002, Viraktamath, 2007 and Gnaneswaran, et al, 2007)
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