Family Delphacidae

Subfamily Vizcayinae

Tribe Vizcayini (the only tribe in the subfamily)

See Asche (1990) for detailed description of the features of the subfamily.

Distribution:

Tropical Asia (China, Philippine Islands, Indonesia, Malaysia, South India, Southeast Asia)

Described species

Genus Neovizcaya Liang, 2002

Neovizcaya sinica Liang, 2002 - SW China (Yunnan)

Genus Vizcaya Muir, 1917

Vizcaya adornata Asche 1990 - Indonesia

Vizcaya aschei Liang, 2002 - South India
Vizcaya bakeri Muir, 1917 - Luzon (Philippine Islands)

Vizcaya latifrons Liang, 2002 - Taiwan

Vizcaya lombokensis Liang, 2002 - Indonesia
Vizcaya longispinosa Liang, 2002 - China (Yunnan)

Vizcaya orea Asche 1990 - Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam
Vizcaya piccola Asche 1990 - Malaysia, Thailand
Vizcaya vindaloa Asche 1990 - India

Economic Importance: None known.

Host plants: Unknown.

Images

Vizcaya bakeri Muir, 1917 (A specimen from the USNM)

Vizcaya piccola Asche, 1990 (From Thailand).  This is the specimen actually used for the molecular work in Urban et al. (2010)

Molecular resources

At this time, neither Genbank or Bold have any molecular resources for this subfamily. Vizcaya piccola was sequenced for 18S, 28S, CO1, WG in Urban et al. (2010).

Selected literature

Asche, M. 1990. Vizcayinae, a new subfamily of Delphacidae with revision of Vizcaya Muir (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) - a significant phylogenetic link. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 30: 154-187.

Liang, A.-P. 2002. New taxa of Vizcayinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Delphacidae), including a remarkable new genus from China. Journal of Natural History 36: 601-616.

Muir, F.A.G. 1917. A new Philippine genus of Delphacidae. Philippine Journal of Science 12: 351-352.