My current projects largely involve describing new taxa that I have on hand. There are a large number of Neotropical forms that are undescribed, and a few Nearctic forms.

Current and planned projects that I am soliciting specimens for are:

1) Taxa needed for molecular work (Palearctic wishlist)

These taxa are wanted to improve taxonomic sampling in an ongoing project exploring the phylogenetics of the Delphacidae (in collaboration with Jason Cryan and Julie Urban, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences).  This project combines molecular and morphological data, so ideally I could use specimens both for DNA (preserved in alcohol - ideally 95-100% ETOH), and for morphological work (which can be dry or in alcohol).  Although a single specimen (positively identified and well-preserved) will serve for DNA, I have been targeting 3 specimens (males), with any in excess of this used for morphological coding (when needed).  For this project, our prime concern is to have as many delphacid genera represented in the dataset as possible, with a secondary concern of having multiple species within each genus.  While we need taxa from all over the world, the following list is directed toward taxa of the western Palearctic, and was assembled to provide some guidance to colleagues we spoke with at the 13th International Auchenorrhyncha Congress held at Vaison-la-Romaine, France (28 June - 2 July 2010).

Of course, I'd be happy to accept unsorted delphacids from anywhere for molecular work.

High priority

Delphacodes spp. (s.s.) - any true "Delphacodes".

Of particular interest

Litemixia pulchripennis Asche, 1980

Stiroma spp.

Needed

Kelisia spp. (my exemplars are New World)

Stenocranus minutus (Fabricius, 1787) (also could use S. fuscovittatus & S. longipennis)

Tropidocephala spp. (any)

Jassidaeus lugubris (Signoret, 1865)

Achorotile albosignata (Dahlbom, 1850) (or A. longicornis)

Calligypona reyi (Fieber, 1866)

Chloriona spp. (any species - we have had some that did not seem to work)

Conomelus lorifer Ribaut, 1948

Criomorphus spp.

Delphax spp. (I have D. pulchellus and D. maritima)

Delphacinus mesomelas (Boheman, 1850)

Ditropis pteridis (Spinola, 1839)

Ditropsis flavipes (Signoret, 1865)

Euides alpina (Wagner, 1948)

Eurysanoides douglasi (Scott, 1870)

Eurysella brunnea (Melichar, 1896)

Eurysula lurida (Fieber, 1866)

Falcotoya minuscula (Horvath, 1897)

Flastena fumipennis (Fieber, 1866)

Florodelphax spp.

Horvathianella palliceps (Horvath, 1897)

Hyledelphax elegantula (Boheman, 1847)

Javesella spp. (Have pellucida and dubia)

Megamelodes spp.

Metropis spp. (although I have one, unidentified, from southern France)

Mirabella albifrons Emeljanov, 1982

Nothodelphax distincta (Flor, 1861)

Oncodelphax pullula (Boheman, 1852)

Paradelphacodes spp.

Paraliburnia clypealis (J. Sahlberg, 1871)

Pastiroma clypeata (Horvath, 1897)

Pseudodelphacodes flaviceps (Fieber, 1866)

Ribautodelphax spp. (mine didn't work!)

Scottianella dalei (Scott, 1870)

Stiromella obliqua (Wagner, 1948)

Stiromoides maculiceps (Horvath, 1903)

Unkanodes excisa (Melichar, 1898)

Xanthodelphax spp.

2) Revision of Neotropical Tropidocephalini

This project is in the planning stage, but I am currently compiling specimens (and images of specimens) on New World Tropidocephalini

This includes:

Columbiana Muir, 1919 (type species Columbiana lloydi Muir, 1919).
Columbiana carasi Fennah, 1964: 693-694 - Peru
Columbiana lloydi Muir, 1919 - Columbia

 

Columbisoga Muir, 1921 (type species Columbisoga campbelli Muir, 1921)
Subgenus Columbisoga Muir, 1921
Columbisoga chusqueae Muir, 1926 - Ecuador
Columbisoga filistylus Muir, 1930 - Bolivia
Columbisoga gynerii Muir, 1926 - Ecuador
Columbisoga gyneriicola Muir, 1926 - Ecuador
Columbisoga maculosa Muir, 1926 - Ecuador
Columbisoga merae Muir, 1926 - Ecuador
Columbisoga ornata Muir, 1926 - Ecuador
Columbisoga sacchari Muir, 1926 - Ecuador
Columbisoga tenae Muir, 1926 - Ecuador
Columbisoga tylotus Fennah, 1963: 689-690 - Brazil
Columbisoga zapote Muir, 1926 - Ecuador
Subgenus Columbisodes Fennah, 1963: 691 (type species Columbisoga (Columbisodes) saracura Fennah, 1963).
Columbisoga (Columbisodes) saracura Fennah, 1963: 691-692 - Brazil

Macrocorupha Muir, 1926 (type species Macrocorupha gynerii Muir, 1926).
Macrocorupha gynerii Muir, 1926 - Ecuador, Peru

Malaxa Melichar, 1914 (type species Malaxa acutipennis Melichar, 1914)
Malaxa gracilis Fennah, 1945 - Venezuela
Malaxa microstyla Muir, 1930 - Bolivia
Malaxa occidentalis Muir, 1926 - Ecuador

(for the following genus, I only need to see undetermined specimens)
Procidelphax Bartlett, 2010 (type species Procidelphax depressa Bartlett 2010).
Procidelphax dejecta Bartlett, 2010 - Bolivia
Procidelphax depressa Bartlett, 2010 - Peru

 

3) Species needed to photograph:

This is a working list of species of which specimens are needed to photograph for the interactive key (sometimes "better" - more photogenic - specimens are needed than those currently available).  Most of these species are not from North America. Males and female, short and long-winged forms are all desired.  Later, there will be a much longer list presented of North American species that I still need.

Of course, I'd be happy to accept good photographs (that I can use on my website and elsewhere, with attribution, of course) instead.

Chilodelphax silvatica Vilbaste, 1968 (= Unkanodes)

Chloriona superba Emeljanov 1964

Elachodelphax metcalfi (Kusnezov, 1929)

Euides afasciata (Caldwell, 1951)

Falcotoya crawfordi  (Muir & Giffard, 1924)

Falcotoya lyraeformis (Matsumura, 1900)

Malaxodes farinosus Fennah, 1967

Megadelphax bidentatus (Anufriev, 1970

Metropis tolerans Emeljanov, 1973

Nilaparvata bakeri (Muir, 1917)

Nilaparvata meander Fennah, 1958

Opiconsiva paludum (Kirkaldy, 1910)

Paracorbulo sirokata (Matsumura & Ishihara, 1945)

Perkinsiella lalokensis Muir, 1911

Perkinsiella papuensis Muir, 1911

Perkinsiella rattlei Muir, 1911

Perkinsiella sinensis Kirkaldy, 1907

Purohita taiwanesis Muir, 1914

Ribautodelphax notabilis Logvinenko 1970

Ribautodelphax pallens (Stal, 1854)

Stenocranus pacificus Kirkaldy, 1907

Tarophagus proserpina (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Tarophagus persephone (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Toya terryi (Muir, 1917)

Tropidocephala formosana Matsumura, 1910

Tropidocephala saccharivorella Matsumura, 1907

Unkanodes tanasijevici (Dlabola, 1965)