Family Delphacidae

Subfamily Delphacinae 

Tribe Saccharosydnini

Distribution: South and Central America, Caribbean.

Type species (in original combination): Pseudomacrocorupha wagneri Muir, 1930.

Recognized species

There is a single described species currently placed in this genus.

Pseudomacrocorupha wagneri Muir, 1930 Argentina

Hosts: None reported.

Economic Importance: Probably limited.

Recognition

This is the only described Saccharosydnine with a flattened head and broad frons - so far.  I have seen specimens of undescribed species (or genera) within Saccharosynini with flattened head. The genitalia were illustrated by Muir (1930), but it appears that the genital microvial for the holotype is now empty.

This is the only reported specimen of this species of which I am aware; however, I have seen a series of specimens of this species from recent collections from Argentina, so the species is probably greatly underreported rather than extremely rare. 

Pseudomacrocorupha wagneri holotype (Photos courtesy of Gunvi Lindberg, Swedish Museum of Natural History).

Pseudomacrocorupha wagneri from Argentina (IHNS specimen)

Male

Female

Molecular resources

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

Selected references

Muir, F.A.G. 1930f. On some South American Delphacidae (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea). Entomologisk Tidskrift 51(3-4): 207-215.