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Cixiidae of Costa Rica (and vicinity)


Preliminary list of species

Cixiidae of Costa Rica (and adjacent countries)

Assembled by UD undergraduates Kaitlin Handley and Sara Laskowski (both of which have since graduated).

 

Planthoppers of Costa Rica and adjacent countries (draft July 10, 2013) (L = literature record, S = specimen). (Literature references from the Metcalf catalog [or original description] unless otherwise indicated)

Species
Belize
Guatemala
El Salvador
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
References and Comments
Bothriocera basalis Metcalf, 1938             L  
Bothriocera holzingeri O'Brien, 2006 L, S O'Brien, 2006
Bothriocera venosa Fowler, 1904 L
Cubana castanea (Fowler, 1904) L
Cubana variegata (Fowler, 1904) L
Cyclopoliarus omani (Metcalf, 1938) L
Diastrocixius thelyus Caldwell, 1944 S
Haplaxius crudus (Van Duzee, 1907) L L, S L Van Duzee, 1907
Haplaxius akko (Kramer, 1979) L L L, S L Kramer, 1979
Haplaxius caldwelli (Kramer, 1979) L L Kramer, 1979
Haplaxius deleter (Kramer, 1979) L
Haplaxius delta (Kramer, 1979) L L L
Haplaxius phylax (Kramer, 1979) L
Haplaxius simplicatus (Caldwell, 1946) L L L
Haplaxius skarphion (Kramer, 1979) L L L L
Haplaxius sparagma (Kramer, 1979) L
Microledrida virida Caldwell 1945 L
Mnemosyne flaviocollis Van Stalle, 1987 L, S
Muirolonia metallica (Fowler, 1904) S L, S
Noabennarella costaricensis Holzinger & Kunz, 2006 Holzinger & Kunz, 2006
Oecleus addendus (Fowler, 1904) L
Oecleus cephalicus (Caldwell, 1944) L
Oecleus dubius (Caldwell, 1944) L
Oecleus spatulatus (Caldwell, 1944) L
Melanoliarus chiriquiensis (Fowler, 1904) L
Melanoliarus humeralis (Fowler, 1904) L
Melanoliarus insignior Fowler, 1904 L L
Melanoliarus lacteipennis (Fowler, 1904) L
Oliarissa armiger (Fennah, 1944) L
Pintalia acarinata (Caldwell, 1944) L
Pintalia aspersa (Fowler, 1904) L
Pintalia delicata (Fowler, 1904) L
Pintalia erecta (Metcalf, 1938) L
Pintalia fumata (Caldwell, 1944) L
Pintalia fusca (Metcalf, 1938) L
Pintalia germana (Fowler, 1904) L
Pintalia maculata (Fowler, 1904) L
Pseudocixius apicatus (Fowler, 1904) L L
Rhamphixiius championi Fowler, 1904 S L   S   S L  

 

Gernot Kunz' Gallery of Costa Rican Cixiidae. Pretty cool!

Literature (partial)

Caldwell, J. S. 1944, Notes on Oecleus Stal (Homoptera: Ciciidae) [continued]. Entomological News 55: 198-202.

Fennah, R. G. 1944. New Neotropical Fulgoroidea. American Museum Novitates 1265: 1-9

Fennah, R. G. 1945. The Cixiini of the lesser Antilles (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 58: 133-146.

Fowler, W. W. 1904. Order Rhynchota. Suborder Hemiptera-Homoptera. (Continued). Biologia Centrali-Americana; contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America 1: 85-124.

Holzinger W. E. & Kunz G. 2006 - A new genus and species of Bennarellini from Costa Rica (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1353: 53-61.

Kramer, J. P. 1979 Taxonomic study of the planthopper genus Myndus in the Americas (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Cixiidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 105(3): 301-389.

Metcalf, Z. P. 1936. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV Fulgoroidea . Part 2 Cixiidae. Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts.

Metcalf, Z. P. 1938. The Fulgorina of Barro Colorado and other parts of Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass 82: 277-423.

O'Brien, L.B. 2006 Three new species of Neotropical Cixiidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). Russian Entomological Journal 15(3): 311-314.

Van Duzee, E. P. 1907. 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.