Family Delphacidae

Subfamily Delphacinae

Tribe Delphacini

Type species (in original combination): Matutinus opulentus Distant, 1917.

Distribution: Mostly Africa, with a few species in the southern Palearctic. Two species are known from the Neotropics

Recognized species

Note: This genus was revised by Fennah, 1972.

There are 29 recognized species in the genus as follows:

New World Species

1 Matutinus cubanus Rodriguez-Leon et al. 1998 - Cuba

2 Matutinus fuscipennis (Muir, 1919) - Brazil, Costa Rica, Guyana

Old World Species

1 Matutinus achates Fennah, 1972 - South Africa
2 Matutinus amyclas Fennah, 1972 - Congo
3 Matutinus anacreon Fennah, 1972 - Congo
4 Matutinus andraemon Fennah, 1972 - Congo
5 Matutinus antares Fennah, 1972 - Tanzania
6 Matutinus apollo Fennah, 1972 - South Africa
7 Matutinus artemis Fennah, 1972 - Congo
8 Matutinus erebus Fennah, 1972 - Congo
9 Matutinus erinna Fennah, 1972 - Congo
10 Matutinus hylonome Fennah, 1972 - Madagascar
11 Matutinus hyperion Fennah, 1972 - Congo
12 Matutinus ion (Fennah, 1964) - Madagascar
13 Matutinus iphias Fennah, 1972 - Congo
14 Matutinus lautipes (Stål, 1858) - South Africa, Madagascar
15 Matutinus ligea Fennah, 1969 - Sudan
16 Matutinus melichari (Kirkaldy, 1906) - Sri Lanka
17 Matutinus neovittacollis (Muir, 1926) - South Africa
18 Matutinus occiomphale Asche, 1988 - Ivory Coast
19 Matutinus omphale Fennah, 1972 - Ethiopia
20 Matutinus orestes Fennah, 1972 - Madagascar
21 Matutinus orion Fennah, 1972 - Madagascar
22 Matutinus pomonus (Fennah, 1958) - Guinea
23 Matutinus putoni (Costa, 1888) - Italy (also Sardinia), Morocco
24 Matutinus tartareus (Fennah, 1958) - South Africa
25 Matutinus typhae (Lindberg, 1960) - Canary Is., Egypt, Israel, Morocco
26 Matutinus vitticollis (Stål, 1855) - South Africa
27 Matutinus yanchinus Kuoh, 1980 - Taiwan, China (Hainai)

Reported Hosts:

Matutinus putoni us recorded from Typha species (Typhaceae, Cat tails).

Economic Importance: Probably limited. Most species are poorly known.  Matutinus fuscipennis has been taken at lights and probably is widespread in the Neotropics.

Recognition

Matutinus fuscipennis is a larger, dark-bodied, long-winged delphacid, with a pale stripe along the midline of the dorsum and the frons.  It is superficially similar to dark Sogatella or Tagosodes.  Females are conspicuously paler than males.

Matutinus fuscipennis

Molecular resources

At this time, neither Genbank or BOLD provides molecular data for this genus. 

Selected References

Asche, M. 1988. Delphacidae from Cote d'Ivoire (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea). Revue Francaise d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Serie) 10(2): 151-231.

d'Urso, V. and A. Guglielmino. 1987. Sviluppo postembrionale de Matutinus putoni (Costa A,. 1888) (Homoptera, Delphacidae) e note sulla sua biologia. Animalia (Catania) 13(1-3): 77-93.

Fennah, R.G. 1969.Delphacidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) from the Sudan Republic. Acta Entomologica Fennica 26:1-78.

Fennah, R.G. 1972. A revision of the genus Matutinus Distant (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Delphacidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 61:421-461.

Rodríguez- León Merino, Rosanna; N. Novoa y M. M. Hidalgo-Gato. 1998. Primer registro del género Matutinus Distant, 1917 (Homoptera: Delphacidae) para Cuba con la descripción de una nueva especie. Poeyana 456: 1-4.