Family Delphacidae

Subfamily Delphacinae

Tribe Delphacini

Distribution: North America, especially east, and Mexico.

Type species (in original combination): Aethodelphax prairianus Bartlett and Hamilton, 2011.

Recognized species

There are eight species in the genus, all except the type species were removed from Delphacodes.

Aethodelphax aetocephalus (Beamer, 1948a) - USA: FL, LA, MS, TX
Aethodelphax alatus (Beamer, 1948b) - USA: FL

Aethodelphax caninus (Beamer, 1947) - USA: AZ, ?TX; Mexico (Chihuahua State).
Aethodelphax concavus (Beamer, 1948) - USA: FL, GA, TN
Aethodelphax megadontus (Beamer, 1951) - USA: KS, MN, ?MO, WI

Aethodelphax paraparvulus (Beamer, 1948) -. USA: MS
Aethodelphax prairianus Bartlett & Hamilton, 2011 - USA: IL, MI, NE, SD, WI; Canada: Manitoba.

Aethodelphax sagittatus (Beamer, 1947)- USA: FL, GA, LA

Hosts: Grasses

Aethodelphax prairianus : Andropogon sp., Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash (Poaceae)

Aethodelphax caninus - Muhlenbergia

Economic Importance: Limited.

Recognition

Pale bodied, carinae concolorous with body; vertex narrow and slightly projecting; male genitalia with armature of diaphragm caudally expanded; parameres pediform with large basal angles; suspensorium conspicuous, flattened and elongate; segment 10 with one or two pair of processes.

Aethodelphax aetocephalus

Aethodelphax alatus

Aethodelphax caninus

Aethodelphax concavus

Aethodelphax megadontus

Aethodelphax paraparvulus

Aethodelphax prairianus

Aethodelphax sagitattus

Molecular resources: None.

Selected references

Bartlett, C.R. and K.G.A. Hamilton. 2011. Aethodelphax prairianus gen. et sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) and seven congeneric species from North American Delphacodes. Zootaxa 2837: 48–66. 

Beamer, R. H. 1947. Some new species of Delphacodes (continued) with two old ones (Homoptera: Fulgoridae). Journal of the
Kansas Entomological Society 20: 58–71.

Beamer, R. H. 1948a. Some new species of Delphacodes (Homoptera: Fulgoridae: Delphacinae), Part IV. Journal of the Kansas
Entomological Society 21: 96–110.

Beamer, R. H. 1948b. Some new species of Delphacodes, Part V (Homoptera: Fulgoridae: Delphacinae). Journal of the Kansas
Entomological Society 21: 111–119.

Beamer, R. H. 1951. Some species of Delphacodes, new and old (Homoptera: Fulgoridae: Delphacinae). Journal of the Kansas
Entomological Society 24: 11–15.