Taxonomic notes and redescriptions of some Japanese erythroneurine leafhoppers (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) Author Ohara, Naomichi text Zootaxa 2013 3731 2 243 254 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3731.2.5 5ba29e21-92e9-4a9e-b377-32c06ba68147 1175-5326 224126 76480454-B0FB-43BF-9BA6-EBDC93B9F26B Genus Empoascanara Distant, 1918 Type species: Empoascanara prima Distant, 1918 Empoascanara Distant, 1918 , Faun. Brit. Ind., 7: 94. Distribution. Palearctic, Oriental, Australian, Ethiopian regions. Notes. At present, 88 species of three subgenera, Empoascanara Distant, 1918 , Bza Dworakowska, 1979 and Kanguza Dworakowska, 1972 , have been described worldwide. The subgenus Empoascanara Distant comprising 80 species has been recorded from all of above regions, but the other subgenera are only known from the Oriental region. In Japan , only the nominotypical subgenus is known and two species of this subgenus are newly recorded: E . bisignatella (Matsumura, 1932) comb. nov. and E . kotoshonis (Matsumura, 1940) . So six species are now known from Japan . In the check lists of Morimoto (1989) and Hayashi (2002), E. maculifrons (Motschulsky, 1863) has been reported from Japan , but this is based on a misidentification of E . alami (Ahmed, 1970) .