Elicini Melichar, 1915

Stroiński, Adam, Bourgoin, Thierry & Szwedo, Jacek, 2022, Laberiini, a new tribe of Tropiduchidae planthoppers from Madagascar (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea), European Journal of Taxonomy 836 (1), pp. 23-54 : 28-29

Tribe Elicini Melichar, 1915

Elicini Melichar, 1915: 379 .

Type genus

Elica Walker, 1857: 86 .

Content and distribution

Currently, Elicinae includes 46 genera and 158 species and Elicini remains the most diverse tribe within the subfamily with 37 genera (1.5% of the Fulgoromorpha ) and 143 species (1% of the Fulgoromorpha ) ( Bourgoin 2022; Fig. 2 ). Due to its complex history chronologically listed here, that we complete, we provide a graphical historical synopsis of the generic composition of the tribe ( Fig. 2A–B ).

1915 Elicaini [sic!] Melichar (Melichar: 379; definition, list of genera, key)

1978 Gaetuliina (Fennah: 118; definition, list of genera comprised)

1978 Elicina (Fennah: 118; new status, definition, list of genera comprised)

1984 Gaetuliina Fennah (Fennah: 82; update of definition, transfer of genera from Issidae )

1985 Gaetuliina (O’Brien & Wilson: 89; difficulties of recognition of Nogodinidae after inclusion of Gaetuliinae)

1999 Gaetulina [sic!] (Szwedo & Stroiński: 203; taxonomy)

1999 Gaetulini [sic!] (Szwedo & Stroiński: 297; taxonomy, discussion of characters)

2007 Gaetuliini Fennah (Gnezdilov: 295; new status within Tropiduchidae )

2008 Gaetuliini (Fletcher: 119; transfer of the genus Busas Jacobi, 1909 to Gaetuliini )

2009 Gaetuliina (Stroiński & Gnezdilov: 459; taxonomy)

2009 Gaetuliini (Stroiński & Gnezdilov: 459, 460; redescription of Busas Jacobi, 1909 , list of genera)

2010 Gaetuliina (Szwedo & Stroiński: 132; taxonomy)

2010 Gaetulina Fennah, 1978 [sic!] (Szwedo & Stroiński: 137; taxonomy)

2010 Gaetulini Fennah, 1978 [sic!] (Szwedo & Stroiński: 136, 137; fossil record, taxonomy)

2012b Gaetuliini Fennah, 1978 (Gnezdilov: 637, 638; taxonomy, distribution, description of new genus)

2013 Gaetuliina Fennah, 1978 (Szwedo & Stroiński: 371; taxonomy)

2013 Gaetuliini Fennah, 1978 (Szwedo & Stroiński: 380; characters, fossil record)

2013 Elicini Melichar, 1915 (Gnezdilov: 184; taxonomy)

2013 Elicaini Melichar, 1915 (Gnezdilov: 184; taxonomy, synonymy)

2013 Gaetuliina Fennah, 1978 (Gnezdilov: 184; taxonomy, synonymy)

2015 Elicini Melichar, 1915 (Wang M. et al. 2015: 563, 564; taxon concept history, new genus Connelecita Wang & Bourgoin, 2015)

2015 Elicini Melichar, 1915 (Gnezdilov & Bourgoin: 601; two new genera from Madagascar: Bolitropis Gnezdilov & Bourgoin, 2015 and Bambomada Gnezdilov & Bourgoin, 2015 )

2019 Elicini Melichar, 1915 ( Szwedo 2019 in Szwedo et al. 2019, fossil genera: Senogaetulia Szwedo, 2019 and Dakrutulia Szwedo, 2019 )

The fossil taxa of Elicini are known from the Eocene Baltic amber ( Tritophania Jacobi, 1938 ) and terminal Eocene deposits of Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom ( Senogaetulia Szwedo, 2019 and Dakrutulia Szwedo, 2019 ) ( Jacobi 1938; Szwedo & Stroiński 1999; Szwedo et al. 2019). The tribe Elicini is widely distributed in the New World, in South Africa and Madagascar, in south east continental Asia and Indonesia, and in Australia. It exhibits a bimodal latitudinal distribution with peaks in north and south subtropical regions, while it is less represented in the equatorial zone.

Figures

Fig. 2. History of the classification of Elicini Melichar, 1915. A. Historical synopsis of Elicini supra generic classification. B. Historical generic composition of the tribe Elicini. Prontonyms are in blue boxes, current accepted name in green boxes. In Fig. 2B blue arrows indicate when a genus was first classified in the current classification of the tribe, red arrows indicate when a genus was first wrongly placed in the tribe, then withdrawn for another tribe (left red arrow). Last column in grey provide the corresponding reference and basic information.