__NOTOC__ Fieberiellini is a tribe of

leafhopper Leafhopper is the common name for any species from the family (biology), family Cicadellidae: based on the type genus ''Cicadella''. These minute insects, colloquially known as hoppers, are plant feeders that suck plant sap from grass, shrubs, or ...

s in the subfamily ''

Deltocephalinae Deltocephalinae is a subfamily of leafhoppers. Deltocephalinae is the largest subfamily in the family Cicadellidae and is divided into 40 tribes, comprising over 925 genera Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below fam ...

''. In the review by Zahniser & Dietrich (2013) it includes 48 species placed in 10 genera. Species in this tribe are native to the

Palaearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. Th ...

region, mainly the southern parts, with some being

adventive An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there ...

in the

Nearctic The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface. The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico. The parts of North America ...

. The Cherry Leafhopper ('' Fieberiella florii'') is a vector of several

phytoplasma Phytoplasmas are obligate intracellular parasites of plant phloem tissue and of the insect vectors that are involved in their plant-to-plant transmission. Phytoplasmas were discovered in 1967 by Japanese scientists who termed them mycoplasma-li ...

diseases including Cherry X Disease.

Genera

There are currently 10 described genera of Fieberiellini: * '' Cechenotettix'' Ribaut, 1942 * '' Docotettix'' Ribaut, 1948 * '' Dohukia'' Meyer-Arndt & Remane, 1992 * '' Ericotettix'' Lindberg, 1960 * '' Fieberiella'' Signoret, 1880 * '' Habrostis'' Dubovsky, 1966 * '' Heliotettix'' Rodrigues, 1968 * '' Parafieberiella'' Dlabola, 1974 * '' Placotettix'' Ribaut, 1942 * '' Synophropsis'' Haupt, 1926

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Deltocephalinae Hemiptera tribes {{Deltocephalinae-stub