Family Delphacidae

Subfamily Asiracinae

Tribe Platysystatini Emeljanov 1996

A detailed look at the features of the subfamily Asiracinae is here.

Features of the tribe Platysystatini were described by Emeljanov (1996) as:

"Tribe characterized by having short and wide head with or without simple median carina, absence of morphologically defined areolet  [i.e, areolet obsolete], presence of 5 carinae on the mesonotum with undulating intermediate ones, straight rows of teeth at tip of second segment of hindtarsi, notch on posterior margin of hindwings opposite the tip of CuP, as in Neopunana Asche." (p. 139).

This tribe is probably closely related to the Tetrasteirini. Members are quite small (less than 4 mm) and very rare in collections (the three described species are recorded from a single specimen each, although I have seen additional specimens of Platysystatus and several undescribed genera in this tribe.

Here is a specimen apparently of Equasystatus breviceps from Ecuador.

Pentasteira albifrons Barringer & Bartlett, 2011

Undescribed Platysystatini (female) from Peri.

New World species (this tribe is exclusively New World)