Family Delphacidae

Subfamily Delphacinae

Tribe Delphacini

 

Type species (in original combination): Liburnia metcalfi Kuznezov, 1929.

Distribution: Holarctic, especially North.

Recognized species (distribution information may be incomplete)

Subgenera (not all species placed to subgenus, although it could be assumed that unplaced Old world taxa are Elachodelphax in the strict sense.

  Aschedelphax Wilson, 1992 (sensu Hamilton 2002) (Type species Aschedelphax hochae Wilson, 1992).

  ElachodelphaxVilbaste, 1965 new status (subgenus) by Hamilton 2002a: 17

Subgenus Elachodelphax

Elachodelphax indistinctus (Crawford, 1914: 619) - USA: Colorado
Elachodelphax metcalfi (Kusnezov, 1929) - Paleartic
Elachodelphax squalida Emeljanov, 1988 - Mongolia

Subgenus Aschedelphax

Elachodelphax bifida (Beamer, 1948) - USA: Arizona, ? Colorado, ? New York
Elachodelphax borealis Hamilton 2002 - USA: New Hampshire

Elachodelphax coloradensis (Beamer, 1952) - USA: Colorado
Elachodelphax hochae (Wilson, 1992) - Canada: Yukon

Elachodelphax mazama Hamilton 2002 - USA: Washington

Elachodelphax pediforma (Beamer, 1947) - Canada: Yukon

Elachodelphax unita Hamilton 2002 - USA: Utah

Not placed to subgenus?

Elachodelphax ionovi Anufriev, 2002 - Kyrgyzstan

Elachodelphax paransera Beamer, 1948 - USA: New York, South Dakota

Elachodelphax xinjiangensis Chen, 2002 - China: Xinjiang Uygur

Recorded hosts: None?

 

Economic Importance:  Limited.

 

Recognition

Elachodelphax bifida

 

Elachodelphax coloradensis

Elachodelphax paransera

Molecular resources

At this time, neither Genbank or Bold have any molecular resources for this genus.

 

Selected references

Anufriev, G. A. 2002. New and little known species of cicadoids of the family Delphacidae (Homoptera, Cicadinea) from north Kyrgyzstan. Entomologicheskie Issledovaniya v Kirgizii [Entomological Investigations in Kyrgyzstan] 22: 165-170. [Russian with English summary].

Chen, X. S. 2005. Description of a new species of the genus Elachodelphax from China (Homoptera: Delphacidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 30(1): 34-36.

Crawford, D. L. 1914a. A contribution toward a monograph of the homopterous insects of the family Delphacidae of North and South America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 46: 557-640, plus 6 plates.

Hamilton, K.G.A. 2002. Homoptera (Insecta) in Pacific Northwest grasslands. Part 1 - New and revised taxa of leafhoppers and planthoppers (Cicadellidae and Delphacidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia 99: 3-31.

Hamilton, K.G.A & Kwon, Y. J. 2010. Chapter 19. Taxonomic supplement to "short-horned" bugs (Homoptera) of the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone.  In: D. MacAlpine (Ed.), Assessment of Species Diversity in the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone. NRC Press Biodiversity Monograph Series. Pp. 421–431. 

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