Empoascanara Distant, 1918

Ohara, Naomichi, 2013, Taxonomic notes and redescriptions of some Japanese erythroneurine leafhoppers (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae), Zootaxa 3731 (2), pp. 243-254 : 248

Genus Empoascanara Distant, 1918

Type species: Empoascanara prima Distant, 1918

Empoascanara Distant, 1918 , Faun. Brit. Ind., 7: 94.

Distribution. Palearctic, Oriental, Australian, Ethiopian regions.

Notes. At present, 88 species of three subgenera, Empoascanara Distant, 1918 , Bza Dworakowska, 1979 and Kanguza Dworakowska, 1972 , have been described worldwide. The subgenus Empoascanara Distant comprising 80 species has been recorded from all of above regions, but the other subgenera are only known from the Oriental region. In Japan, only the nominotypical subgenus is known and two species of this subgenus are newly recorded: E. bisignatella (Matsumura, 1932) comb. nov. and E. kotoshonis (Matsumura, 1940) . So six species are now known from Japan. In the check lists of Morimoto (1989) and Hayashi (2002), E. maculifrons (Motschulsky, 1863) has been reported from Japan, but this is based on a misidentification of E. alami (Ahmed, 1970) .