Family Delphacidae

Subfamily Delphacinae 

Tribe Saccharosydnini

Distribution: Argentina.

Type species (in original combination): Lacertina australis Remes Lenicov & Rossi Batiz, 2011.

Recognized species

There is a single described species currently placed in this genus.

Lacertina australis Remes Lenicov & Rossi Batiz, 2011 - Argentina (Buenos Aires Province, Córdoba, Entre Ríos, Jujuy, La Pampa, La Rioja, Neuquén, Río Negro, San Juan, Tucumán).

Hosts:

Pampas Grass - Cortaderia selloana (Schult. & Schult. f.) Asch. & Graebn.; possibly also garlic, rye, rice

Economic Importance: Unclear.

Recognition

Head flattened, unusual in shape and carination; frons with 2 median carinae; male parameres with rounded internal and acute external apical angles.

Image from Rossi Batiz & Remes Lenicov 2011.

Lacertina australis (photos by Kimberley Shropshire, University of Delaware)

Molecular resources

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

Selected references

Rossi Batiz, M. F. and A.M.M. de Remes-Lenicov. 2011. A new genus and species of Saccharosydnini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Delphacidae) from Argentina. Zootaxa 3118: 62-68.