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.

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