Hemisphaeriini Melichar, 1906

Gnezdilov, Vladimir M., 2022, New Synonymies And New Combinations For Chinese Issidae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 68 (1), pp. 45-52 : 46

Tribe Hemisphaeriini Melichar, 1906

Hemisphaeridae Melichar, 1906: 3. Type genus: Hemisphaerius Schaum, 1850 , by subsequent designation.

Superciliarinae Meng, Qin et Wang in ZHANG et al. 2020: 296, syn. n. Type genus: Superciliaris Meng, Qin et Wang, 2020, by original designation.

Notes. A close relationship of Hemisphaeriinae sensu ZHANG et al. (2020) and Superciliarinae is indicated by the hemisphaerical forewings possessing a reticulate venation, and particularly the evident similarity of the penis, style, and male anal tube in these two groups. The only differences between the two purported subfamilies are apparently the relative width of the head and the pronotum and the width of genae ( ZHANG et al. 2020, p. 559), which are hardly of subfamily level significance and not a constant character among various hemisphaeriine taxa. The reticulate venation of Superciliaris (the single genus included in Superciliarinae) suggests a close relationship to the hemisphaeriine genus Eusudasina Yang, 1994 , while the peculiar triangular subapical processes of the dorsolateral lobes of the phallobase and the lack of neck or short neck of the style of Superciliaris are potential synapomorphies shared with the hemisphaeriine genus Epyhemisphaerius Chan et Yang, 1994 ( CHAN & YANG 1994, GNEZDILOV 2018: figs. 27–31, sp). There seems to be no evidence support- ing the removal of Superciliaris from Hemisphaeriinae and its placement into a subfamily of its own. Accordingly, Superciliarinae is hereby downgraded to a junior subjective synonym of Hemisphaeriini sensu GNEZDILOV et al. (2020) .