Family Delphacidae

Subfamily Delphacinae

Tribe Delphacini

Distribution: Western United States.

Type species (in original combination): Megamelanus bicolor Ball, 1902.

Recognized species

Megamelanus bicolor Ball, 1902 - USA: Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah
Megamelanus rufivittatus Ball, 1905 - see Saccharosydne

   (Megamelanus rufivittatus is a junior synonym of Saccharosydne saccharivora (Westwood, 1833), see Kennedy et al. 2012)

Hosts: None reported.

Economic Importance: Limited.

Recognition

Unique among North American species. Uncommonly encountered.  I have not seen long-winged forms, although they probably exist.  I was recently sent a macropterous female.

Megamelanus bicolor

Molecular resources:  None!

References

Ball, E. D. 1902d. New Genera and Species of North American Fulgoridae. Canadian Entomologist 34: 259-266.

Ball, E. D. 1905a. Some new Homoptera from the south and southwest. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 18: 117-120.

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.

McDermott, B.T. 1952. A revision of the genus Megamelanus and its allies (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea, Delphacidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 25: 41-49.