Ledrinae
Range: Worldwide.
Known diversity: 70 genera, 450 species.
Ecology: Usually on trees and shrubs (Xerophloeini on grasses).
Diagnosis: Medium-sized to large brown or green leafhoppers; head usually strongly produced, often spatulate, ocelli on crown distant from margin (or, in Stenocotini, in marginal grooves), lateral frontal sutures partially or completely obsolete; forewing macropterous, often with supranumerary veins; hind femur with three short stout macrosetae apically, distal macrosetae of tibial row AD with spinelike bases; male plates ligulate, partially retracted into enlarged sternum VIII.
Similar to: Scarinae, Iassinae.