Empoasca (Empoasca) Walsh, 1862

Empoasca (Empoasca) Walsh, 1862: 149

Type species. Empoasca fabae (Harris, 1841) (The type species was originally listed as Empoasca viridescens Walsh, 1862, a junior synonym of E. fabae).

The first use of subgenera in Empoasca was by DeLong (1931), but he did not recognize subgenera in his many subsequent papers on the genus. For a subgeneric diagnosis see Zhang et al. (2008).

Distribution. Oriental Region, Palaearctic Region, Nearctic Region, Afrotropical Region and Australian Region.