Erythrogonia Melichar, 1926

Quintas, Victor, Silva, Adriane P., Takiya, Daniela M. & Mejdalani, Gabriel, 2025, Exploring the diversity of leafhoppers from Brazil: five new species of Erythrogonia Melichar (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellini), Zootaxa 5686 (2), pp. 249-269 : 250-251

Genus Erythrogonia Melichar, 1926

Type species: Cicada laeta Fabricius, 1787 by subsequent designation of Melichar (1926). Diagnosis (based on Medler 1963, Young 1977, and Freytag 2015).

Small to medium-sized sharpshooters (5.2–9.2 mm); crown with apical margin rounded; pronotum with width less than transocular width of head and with characteristic spot of variable color; color of dorsum usually contrasting and with distinctive pattern of markings; male subgenital plates slender, triangular, usually not extending as far posteriorly as pygofer apex, and always bearing macrosetae; aedeagus usually without processes; paraphyses usually present.