The future of the Aphaeninae as a subfamily is unclear since the taxa assigned to it do not form a monophyletic group in recent molecular analyses.[1][2] The tribe Enchophorini, previously placed here, has been raised to a subfamily.
Tribes and genera
Recent research has resulted in the reclassification of the former tribe Enchophorini to a separate subfamily (e.g. [3]), while the tribe Pyropsini is now included here (e.g.,[4][5][6]).
Aphaenini
Auth.: Blanchard, 1847 and Distant, 1906 (distribution: worldwide tropics)
Hellerides Lallemand, 1963 is a junior synonym of Zophiuma Fennah, 1955 in the Lophopidae.[9]
Flatolystra Nast, 1950 (South America) now incertae sedis
The following PNG/Australian genera were previously placed here, but are now in the Poiocerinae: tribe Poiocerini Haupt, 1929:
Desudaba Walker, 1858 (formerly in the tribe Aphaenini Schmidt, 1912)
Galela Distant, 1906 (formerly in the tribe Aphaenini Schmidt, 1912)
The type species of genus Apossoda, A. togoensis Schmidt, 1911, is now placed in Pyrgoteles: P. togoensis (Schmidt, 1911)[10]
References
^Urban, Julie M.; Cryan, Jason R. (2009). "Entomologically famous, evolutionarily unexplored: the first phylogeny of the lanternfly family Fulgoridae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea)". Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution. 50 (3): 471–484. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.12.004. PMID19118634.
^Constant, J. (2014). Revision of the Malagasy lanternfly genus Belbina Stål, 1863, with two new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae). European Journal of Taxonomy, (102). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2014.102
^Constant, Jérôme & Pham, Thai. (2022). The Lanternfly genus Pyrops in Vietnam: A new species from Central Vietnam, taxonomic changes, checklist, identification key (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae). European Journal of Taxonomy. 813. 123-154. 10.5852/ejt.2022.813.1741.
^Jiaranaisakul, Kawin & Constant, Jérôme & Pinkaew, Nantasak. (2024). Review of the lanternfly genus Pyrops of Thailand (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) with notes and keys to species. Zootaxa. 5397. 47-79. 10.11646/zootaxa.5397.1.3.
^Constant, Jerome (2010). "The lanternfly genus Penthicodes: key to the species and review of the "Ereosoma group" with two new species and one new subspecies (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae)". Zootaxa. 2523: 1–26. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2523.1.1. Abstract
^Constant, Jerome (2013). "The Oriental lanternfly genus Scamandra: new species and taxonomical notes (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae)". Zootaxa. 3709 (2): 134–148. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3709.2.2. PMID26240901.
^Liang, Ai-Ping (1995). "Taxonomic changes in oriental Fulgoroidea (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha)". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 103 (2): 162–164. JSTOR25010151.
