Family Delphacidae

Subfamily Delphacinae 

Tribe Tropidocephalini

Distribution: South America

Type species (in original combination): Procidelphax depressa Bartlett, 2010

Recognized species

There are two species currently described in this genus.

Procidelphax dejecta Bartlett 2010 - Bolivia
Procidelphax depressa Bartlett 2010 - Peru

Hosts:

None reported (all specimens collected at lights).

Economic Importance: Limited.

Recognition

The only strongly flattened Tropidocephaline.  Also, the carina of the frons is forked near the base of the eyes. Oddly, only males are known (so far) for this genus.

Plates from Bartlett (2010).

Procidelphax dejecta

Procidelphax depressa

Molecular resources

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

Selected references

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.