Family Delphacidae

Subfamily Stenocraninae 

Tribe Stenocranini

Distribution: Nearctic.

Type species (in original combination): Kelisicranus arundiniphagus Bartlett, 2006.

Recognized species

There is a single species currently placed in this genus.

Kelisicranus arundiniphagus Bartlett, 2006 - USA: Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee

Hosts:

Kelisicranus arundiniphagus is reported from Arundinaria gigantea (Walter) Muhl. (giant cane; Poaceae); also reported from Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash var. scoparium; little bluestem, Poaceae), although this later record needs confirmation.

Economic Importance: Limited. 

Recognition

Among North American Stenocraninae, it is the only species with the forward projecting head and the rather angulate fastigium.  Also among North American Stenocraninae, this species shares with Stenocranus similis in having the female gonoplacs normal (not enlarged).  Hamilton (2006), based on a female, interpreted a specimen of this species as being a North American record of the Asian genus Terauchiana, a matter discussed by Bartlett (2010).  Kelisicranus arundiniphagus is unusual in possessing a structure very similar to a subanal process like that of the Kelisiinae.

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.

Bartlett, C. R. 2006 (dated 2005). Two new genera and species of stenocranine planthoppers (Hemiptera : Delphacidae) from North America. Entomological News 116(5): 291-303.

Hamilton, K.G.A. 2006. The planthopper genus Stenocranus in Canada: implications for classification of Delphacidae (Hemiptera). Canadian Entomologist 138(4): 493-503.