Tartessinae

Tartessinae
Tartessus ferrugineus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Superfamily: Membracoidea
Family: Cicadellidae
Subfamily: Tartessinae
Distant, 1908

The Tartessinae are a subfamily of leafhoppers, originally erected by as a family by William Lucas Distant in 1908. In terms of numbers of genera and species, this subfamily is dominated by the tribe Tartessini, with about 150 described species from India, Japan, SE Asia through to Australia.

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