Family Delphacidae

Subfamily Delphacinae 

Tribe Tropidocephalini

Distribution: South America

Type species (in original combination): Macrocorupha gynerii Muir, 1926.

Recognized species

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

Macrocorupha gynerii Muir, 1926 Ecuador (described from 2 females from near Tena, Ecuador).

Hosts:

Gynerium sagittatum (Aubl.) P. Beauv. (Poales: Poaceae: Arundinoideae)

Economic Importance: Limited.

Recognition

Macrocorupha species undescribed species from Columbia.

Macrocorupha gynerii (from Muir, 1926)

Macrocorupha gynerii (from Asche 1985) (Note: The specimen(s) Asche used for his drawings are from Tingo Maria, Peru.  It is only an assumption that this represents the same species that Muir, 1926, had from near Tena, Ecuador.)

Molecular resources

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

Selected references

Asche, M. 1985. Zur Phylogenie der Delphacidae Leach, 1815 (Homoptera: Cicadina: Fulgoromorpha). Marburger Entomologische Publikationen Marburger Entomologische Publikationen 2(1): 1-398 AND 2(2): 399-910.

Bartlett, C. R. 2010 (dated 2009). A new genus of new world Tropidocephalini (Hemiptera: Delphacidae: Delphacinae), with the description of two new species. Entomological News 120(4): 387-396.

Muir, F.A.G. 1926b. Contributions to our knowledge of South American Fulgoroidea (Homoptera). Part I. The Family Delphacidae. Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, Entomological Series, Bulletin 18:1-51, plates 1-5.