Errhomeninae

Range: northern Palearctic, northwestern Nearctic.

Known diversity: 10 genera, 70 species.

Ecology: On herbs and shrubs.

Diagnosis: Medium-sized to large, robust, usually mottled brown leafhoppers, female often brachypterous; head with ocelli on crown, lateral frontal sutures not extended to ocelli, antennal ledge transverse, frontoclypeus usually inflated; forewing with inner apical cell short and oblique; middle femur usually with AM1 developed; hind femur with three or more pairs of dorsal macrosetae; male plates ligulate.

Similar to: Cicadellinae, Aphrodinae.

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