Family Delphacidae

Subfamily Delphacinae

Tribe Delphacini

Distribution: USA: Widespread, also northern Neotropics and Caribbean.

Type species: Pareuidella spatulata Beamer, 1951.

Recognized species

Only five species are described in this genus:

Pareuidella avicephaliforma Beamer, 1951 USA: Florida, Georgia, Louisiana.
Pareuidella spatulata Beamer, 1951 -  USA: Florida, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, Tennessee.

Pareuidella triloba (Metcalf, 1923) - USA: Louisiana, Florida; Bermuda, Bahamas (Cat, San Salvador)
  = Euides vanduzeei (Muir and Giffard, 1924); see Kennedy et al. 2012
Pareuidella magnistyla (Crawford, 1914) - USA: Georgia; Puerto Rico, Cuba, Grenada, Mexico, St. Thomas, Turks & Caicos
Pareuidella weedi (Van Duzee, 1897) - USA: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Texas; Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico

Recorded Hosts: None.  Most specimens are recorded from lights.

Economic Importance: Limited.

Recognition

Species in this genus externally strongly resemble some North American members of Euides, and probably females of these genera can not be separated.  Recently, most Nearctic Euides were transferred to Pareuidella.  The genus is characherized by being relatively large and uniformly colored; the parameres are complexly branched and the armature of the genital diaphragm is large and avicephalaform (and usually bifid).

Pareuidella avicephaliforma

Pareuidella spatulata

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Pareuidella triloba

Pareuidella weedi

Molecular resources: none.

Select references

Beamer, R. H. 1951. A new genus and two new species of Delphacine fulgorids. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 44(2): 198-200.

Kennedy, A. C., C. R. Bartlett, and S. W. Wilson. 2012. An annotated checklist of the delphacid planthoppers (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) of Florida with the description of three new species and the new genus, Meristopsis. Florida Entomologist 95(2): 395-421.