Xedreota Kramer, 1966

Jones, Joshua R. & Deitz, Lewis L., 2009, Phylogeny and systematics of the leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) 2186, Zootaxa 2186 (1), pp. 1-120 : 62-63

Genus Xedreota Kramer

(Pl. 4L, 10E, 12D, 17J, 19K)

Xedreota Kramer, 1966: 495 , figs. 70–73.

Type species. Xerophloea tuberculata Osborn, 1938: 16 , pl. 4, fig. 23, by original designation.

Synonymy: None.

Description: Kramer: “Moderately large (8–9.5 mm.) robust leafhoppers; head produced beyond eyes but not strongly so, anterior margin carinate, ocelli on crown anterior to eyes, closer to midline than to lateral margins; in lateral view face oblique with clypeus and clypellus clearly visible; in facial view with clypeus and clypellus rather flat, genae broad, lateral frontal sutures terminating below apex of head mesad of and beyond antennal bases, antennae of moderate length and development, located in the upper inner edge of a broad depression between eye and clypeus; pronotum about as wide as head, anterior margin rounded, posterior margin oblique laterally and indented mesally, carinate laterally; scutellum about as broad as long; forewings long, moderately broad, variably punctate, without extra crossveinlets apically, appendix absent; legs moderately stout with spines of metathoracic tibia less numerous than in usual leafhopper type; spinulation of metathoracic femur 2–1–1–1. Male genitalia, male unknown; female genitalia, seventh sternum longer than preceding segment and with ovipositors not extending much beyond pygofer.”

Species. [1]: tuberculata (Osborn) .

Range: Brazil; Guyana.

Host plants. Unknown.

Material examined. X. tuberculata : 1 male, 3 females, Guiana, MNHN, JRJ _Led1_369–371, 373 , 3 females, Guiana, USNM, JRJ _Led1_368, 372–373 .

Remarks. See comments under “Remarks” for the genus Tituria in the tribe Ledrini , above. Oman (1949) appears to have been the first to place Proranus (= Epiclines ) in Xerophloeini .

Members of this genus are very robust and treehopper-like, and specimens are sometimes found with unsorted Membracidae in collections.