Family Delphacidae

Subfamily Delphacinae

Tribe Delphacini

Distribution: Northern Holarctic.

Type species: Liburnia dimidiatifrons Kusnezov, 1929

Recognized species

Only five species are in this genus, as follows:

Kusnezoviella antinoma Emeljanov, 1973 - Mongolia
Kusnezoviella chalchica Emeljanov, 1973 - Mongolia
Kusnezoviella dimidiatifrons (Kusnezov, 1929) - Turkestan, Mongolia, Russia (Altai Mtns)
Kusnezoviella euagropyri Emeljanov, 1964) - Kazakhstan
Kusnezoviella macleani Wilson, 1988 - USA: Alaska

Recorded Hosts:

Kusnezoviella antinoma is reported from Elymus sp. (a grass, Poaceae) (Wilson et al. 2004).

Kusnezoviella chalchica is reported from Hordeum sp. (a grass, Poaceae) (Wilson et al. 2004).

Kusnezoviella dimidiatifrons is reported from Agropyron pseudagropyrum (a grass, Poaceae) (Wilson et al. 2004).

Economic Importance: Probably limited.

Recognition

Keys to genus in Wilson (1988) (Alaska), and Anufriev and Emeljanov (1988) (Palearctic).

Kusnezoviella dimidiatifrons

Kusnezoviella macleani

Molecular resources

At this time, neither Genbank or Bold have any molecular resources for this genus.

Selected references

Anufriev, G.A. and A. F. Emeljanov. 1988. Volume II: Homoptera and Heteroptera. In: P.A. Lehr (ed.). Keys to the Insects of the Far East of the USSR in Six Volumes, Transliteration of the Russian title: Opredelitel’ nasekomykh Dal’nego Vostoka SSSR v shesti tomakh. Vol. 2. Ravnokrylye i poluzhestkokrylye. In: P.A. Lehr (ed.). Keys to the Insects of the Far East of the USSR in Six Volume. Nauka, Leningrad. [English translation]

Emeljanov, A.F. 1972. New leafhoppers (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha) from the Mongolian People's Republic. Nasekomye Mongolii [Insects of Mongolia] 1: 199-260 [In Russian].

Wilson, S.W., C. Mitter, R.F. Denno, and M.R. Wilson. 1994. Evolutionary patterns of host plant use by delphacid planthoppers and their relatives. In: R.F. Denno and T.J. Perfect, (eds.). Planthoppers: Their Ecology and Management. Chapman and Hall, New York. Pp. 7-45 & Appendix [host references in appendix].

Wilson, S.W. 1988. Delphacidae of Alaska (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 12: 335-343.

Wilson, S.W. 1992. The Delphacidae of Yukon Territory, Canada (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Insecta Mundi 6(2): 79-100.

Wilson, S.W. 1997. Delphacid planthoppers (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Delphacidae) of the Yukon. Pp. 377-385. In: H. V. Danks and J. A. Downes (eds.). Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Ottawa, Canada.