Family Delphacidae

Subfamily Delphacinae

Tribe Delphacini

Distribution: Southeastern United States, Greater Antilles, Central America.

Type species: Macrotomella carinata Van Duzee, 1907

Recognized species:

There is a single species in this genus:

Macrotomella carinata Van Duzee, 1907 - USA: Florida, Illinois, Texas; Bahamas (Great Inagua), Belize, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico

Recorded hosts: None?

Economic importance: Limited.  A single uncommon species in southeastern USA, Carribbean and Central America. there has been unconfirmed report of this species being transported on horticulture stock.

Recognition

The bicarinate frons is highly distinctive; also note the slightly pointed head.  Long-winged forms are known, but less common than brachypters.

Macrotomella carinata

Molecular resources

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

Selected References

Van Duzee, E. P. 1907a. Notes on Jamaican Hemiptera: A report on a collection of Hemiptera made on the island of Jamaica in the spring of 1906. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 8(5): 3-79.