Family Delphacidae

Subfamily Stenocraninae 

Tribe Stenocranini

Distribution: Mexico.

Type species (in original combination): Frameus simatus Bartlett, 2010..

Recognized species

There are five species currently placed in this genus.

Frameus dissociatus Bartlett, 2010 - Mexico
Frameus obrienae Bartlett, 2010 - Mexico
Frameus porrectus Bartlett, 2010 - Mexico
Frameus prolatus Bartlett, 2010 - Mexico
Frameus simatus Bartlett, 2010 - Mexico

Hosts:

Grasses -

Frameus dissociatus - Muhlenbergia curvula Swallen (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae)

Frameus obrienae - Festuca amplissima Rupr. ex Galeotti (Poaceae: Pooideae: Poeae).

Frameus porrectus - Muhlenbergia lucida Swallen

Frameus prolatus - Muhlenbergia vaginata Cory

Frameus simatus - Muhlenbergia sp. (Muhly grass)

Plant names primarily according to The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov) (GRIN or the Plant List when not in PLANTS, internet search when all else fails).

Host records reported from Bartlett (2010)..

Economic Importance: Limited - species poorly known. 

Recognition

One of two New World genera with long heads. Most similar to Tanycranus, except that genus is from South America (not Mexico).  Frameus has the apex of the head blunt (not truncated) and the carinae of the frons paired to the frontoclypeal suture (as opposed to forked between or above eyes).  Frameus usually has two pairs of processes on segment 10 (except one on F. dissociatus, one on Tanycranus).

Frameus dissociatus

Frameus obrienae

Frameus porrectus

Frameus prolatus

Frameus simatus

Molecular resources

There are no data on this genus in Genbank or BOLD. 

Selected references

Bartlett, C. R. 2010 (dated 2009). Diversity in New World Stenocranine Planthoppers (Hemiptera: Delphacidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 135(4): 443-486.