4 GENERAL CATALOGUE OF THE HOMOPTERA 



letter, e.g., Fabricius 1802a. The full reference can be obtained by 

 consulting the Bibliography of the Cicadelloidea in which authors are 

 arranged alphabetically, and their works chronologically under the 

 author's name. This method of citation eliminates the necessity for 

 a complete literature citation in the catalogue proper, and thus saves 

 time, space, and publication costs. It is believed that the revised 

 method will cause no great inconvenience to the reader. Dr. Metcalf 

 himself advocated it under certain conditions, and it is felt that he 

 would have approved its use for his catalogues. 



The Family Aphrodidae consists of 27 genera and 119 species. In 

 recent years there have been differences of opinion among special- 

 ists concerning which groups should be included in the Aphrodidae. 

 The genera included below are, for the most part, those listed in 

 Evans 1947a under the tribes Aphrodini and Errhomenellini. Fam- 

 ily characters are not listed here because the diagnostic characters 

 heretofore published for this group are weak, in some cases inaccu- 

 rate, and obviously in need of restudy. 



The following classification has been adopted for this family: 



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Family Aphrodidae 5 



Subfamily Aphrodinae 11 



Tribe Errhomenini 12 



Tribe Aphrodini 33 



Tribe Anoterostemmini 221 



Tribe Doraturini 227 



The species have been recorded from the following zoogeographical 

 regions : 52 from the Palearctic Region, 22 from the Nearctic Region, 

 17 from the Oriental Region, 9 from the Ethiopian Region, 5 from 

 the Australian Region, 4 from the Neotropical Region, 2 from the 

 Malaysian Region, 1 from the Caribbean Region, and 7 from two or 

 more regions. 



The known geographic distribution of each species is indicated by 

 superscript figm^es at the end of the lines, which correspond to geo- 

 graphic regions designated by the same superscript figures. In 

 general the distribution is as given by the author of the reference, 

 the country being considered the smallest unit, except in the case of 

 large countries, where states and provinces are the smallest units. 

 In the larger island groups, the individual islands are indicated 

 wherever possible in view of the importance of island endemism. 



Raleigh, North Carolina D. A. Young 



August 1960 for 



Z. P. Metcalf 



