Ulopinae

Range: Old World.

Known diversity: 33 genera, 180 species.

Ecology: On dense, low-growing woody or herbaceous vegetation; Cephalelini on Restioniaceae.

Diagnosis: Small brown leafhoppers with elytralike forewings; head weakly to strongly produced, ocelli on crown, postfrontal sutures usually well developed; mesanepisternum with shelflike process; leg chaetotaxy greatly reduced; hind tibia usually with macrosetae absent or restricted to distal third of row AD.

Similar to: Megophthalminae, Evansiolinae.

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