Kga. Hamilton, Five genera of new-world "shovel-headed" and "spoon-bill" leafhoppers (Hemiptera : Cicadellidae : Dorycephalini and Hecalini), CAN ENTOMOL, 132(4), 2000, pp. 429-503
New-world leafhoppers with strongly flattened heads are here assigned to th
ree tribes: Deltocephalini (six genera), Dorycephalini (two genera), and He
calini (seven genera). Revised keys Ne presented to the new-world genera, a
nd 44 new-world species of the Nearctic genera Attenuipyga Oman (Dorycephal
ini) and Neohecalus Linnavuori, the Holarctic genera Hecalus Stal and Memno
nia Ball, and the widespread new-world genus Spangbergiella Signoret (Hecal
ini). In Dorycephalini, Attenuipyga (with subgenus Dorycara Emeljanov, stat
.nov.) has nine species, including Attenuipyga (s.s.) joyceae sp.nov. from
Manitoba and Dorycephalus sinuatus Beamer, 1942b = Dorycephalus minor Osbor
n, 1920, syn.nov. In Hecalini, 10 species in Hecalus, 3 in Neohecalus, and
15 in Memnonia are recognized, including 20 species formerly in Parabolocra
tus Fieber, plus Hecalus finnamorei sp.nov., Neohecalus magnificus sp.nov.,
Memnonia anthalopus sp.nov., Memnonia maia sp.nov., and Memnonia panzeri s
p.nov. from the northern prairies and Memnonia leptalea sp.nov. from the Gu
lf states. Parabolocratus continuus DeLong, 1938 and Parabolocratus planus
Shaw, 1932 are reduced to subspecific status in Hecalus,montanus, and three
names are synonymized: Parabolocratus inflatus DeLong, 1938 = Hecalus mont
anus (Ball, 1900); Parabolocratus rotundus DeLong, 1938 = Hecalus major (Os
born, 1915); and Parabolocratus elongatus DeLong, 1938 = Memnonia grandis (
Shaw, 1932) syn.nov.