Family Achilidae

Subfamily Achilinae

Tribe Achilini Stål, 1866
= Elidipterini Fennah 1950; syn. by Emeljanov 1992: 53.

Genus Uniptera Ball, 1933

Type species: Uniptera ampliata Ball, 1933.

Synonyms: none.

Distribution: California

Recognized species

There is a single species in this genus: Uniptera ampliata Ball, 1933

Economic Importance: Limited; uncommonly encountered.

Known host plants:  None.

Recognition:

Costal cell broad, at its widest point 1/3 as wide as forewing; wings rather sinuate along costal margin; unique among achilids north of Mexico.

Uniptera ampliata Ball, 1933 (Achilidae, Achilinae, Achilini); photos by Kimberley Shropshire (University of Delaware)

Molecular resources: GenBank and Barcode of Life have no data for this genus. 

Selected references:

Ball, E. D. 1933. Some new Western leafhoppers of the fulgorid family Achilidae. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 9: 133-138.

Emeljanov, A. F. 1992. Toward the problem and limits and subdivisions of Achilidae (Homoptera, Cicadina). Entomological Review 71(1): 53-73 (Translation of Entomologicheskoye Obozreniye 1991, 70: 373-393, in Russian).

Fennah, R. G. 1950a. A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) with descriptions of new species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 1: 1-170.

O’Brien, L. B. 1971. The systematics of the tribe Plectoderini in America north of Mexico (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Achilidae). University Of California Publications in Entomology 64: 1 79.