Family Delphacidae

Subfamily Delphacinae

Tribe Delphacini

Distribution: Boreal; in the New World, reported from Canada..

Type species (in original combination): Delphax paludosa Flor, 1861.

Recognized species

This genus is represented by 5 species (distribution information is incomplete)

Paradelphacodes insolitus Dmitriev, 2000 - European Russia
Paradelphacodes litoralis (Reuter, 1880) - Canada: Newfoundland, Yukon; Finland, Scandinavia, Germany, Great Britain (Scotland)
Paradelphacodes orientalis Anufriev, 1972 - Russia (Sikhote Alin Region) , China
Paradelphacodes paludosa (Flor, 1861) - Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic (Bohemia, Moravia), Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, n. Italy, Japan (Honshu), Latvia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia), Sweden.
Paradelphacodes tengaica Vilbaste, 1965 - Russia (Altai Mtns)

Economic importance: Limited.

Host plants:

Paradelphacodes litoralis - Carex rostrata Stokes (Beaked sedge), Eriophorum sp. (cottongrass), Eleocharis sp. (spikeruss), Phragmites (common reed).

Paradelphacodes paludosus - Carex rostrata Stokes, Carex panicea L. (grass-like sedge); Agropyron sp., (wheatgrass), Dactylis glomerata L. (orchardgrass), Phalaris canariensis L. (annual canarygrass), Sporobolus sp. (dropseed).

Host information from Wilson et al. 1994, Holzinger et al. 2003, Nickel 2003, Ding 2006.

Recognition

No specimens of this genus are available for photography at this time.

Paradelphacodes insolitus

Paradelphacodes litoralis

Paradelphacodes paludosa

Paradelphacodes orientalis

Paradelphacodes tengaica

Molecular resources:

No molecular data is available for this genus at this time on either Genbank or Bold.

Selected References

Anufriev, G. A. 1972. New and Little Known Leaf-hoppers from the Family Delphacidae (Homoptera) from the Maritime District. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 51(4): 612-615.

Ding, J. H. 2006. Fauna Sinica Insecta Vol. 45 Homoptera Delphacidae. Science Press, Beijing, China.

Dmitriev, D. A. 2000. A new species of Paradelphacodes from centre of European Russia (Homoptera: Delphacidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 8(2): 281-282

Holzinger, W. E., I. Kammerlander, and H. Nickel. 2003. Fulgoromorpha, Cicadomorpha excluding Cicadellidae. Volume 1. The Auchenorrhyncha of Central Europe. Brill Academic Publishing, Leiden, Netherlands.

Nickel, H. 2003. The Leafhoppers and Planthoppers of Germany (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha), Patterns and strategies in a highly diverse group of phytophagous insects , Pensoft Series Faunistica 28, Sofia, Bulgaria.

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

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].