Family Fulgoridae

Subfamily Poiocerinae

Tribe Poiocerini Haupt, 1929

Subtribe Calyptoproctina Metcalf, 1938

Genus Calyptoproctus Spinola, 1839

Type species (in original combination): Fulgora elegans Olivier, 1788.

Synonyms:  None (although Metcalf 1947 lists several misspellings).

Distribution: Southern US, Central America to South America (?)

Recognized species

This genus has 10 species, only one of which is found north of Mexico (and the placement of that species is in doubt).

Calyptoproctus aridus Stål, 1869 - "South America"
Calyptoproctus coloratus Distant, 1906 - Ecuador
Calyptoproctus confusus Distant, 1906 - Mexico, Guatemala
Calyptoproctus elegans (Olivier, 1791) - Surinam, Brazil, French Guiana, Honduras
Calyptoproctus exsiccatus (Stål, 1854) - Brazil
Calyptoproctus fuscipennis Distant, 1906 - Ecuador
Calyptoproctus guttipes (Walker, 1858) - Mexico
Calyptoproctus marmoratus Spinola, 1839 - USA: AL, AZ, FL, GA, MS, NC, NM, OK, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA
     = Crepusia glauca Metcalf, 1923: 173; syn. by Ball 1933b: 145 (error?).
     = Alphina glauca auctt.
Calyptoproctus stigma (Fabricius, 1803)- Brazil
Calyptoproctus weyrauchi Lallemand, 1956 - Peru, French Guiana

Note: Because the type specimen of Alphina glauca (Metcalf, 1923), is misplaced, it is not possible to determine whether this species is the same as Calyptoproctus marmoratus Spinola, 1839 (see note at Alphina).  This problem is the subject of an ongoing study.  Eastern specimens are interpreted as being Calyptoproctus marmoratus.

Economic Importance:

Limited.

Known host plants: 

None reported (but possibly on trunks of deciduous trees).

Host from Wilson et al. (1994); plant names from USDA PLANTS or Tropicos.

Recognition:

Calyptoproctus marmoratus can be recognized from other North American forms by head not strongly produced, head with eyes narrower than pronotum; transverse carina at posterior margin of pronotum; sides of frons not parallel, widened in distinct lobe just above clypeal suture; ninth abdominal tergite of female elongate, medially carinate, usually hiding tenth and eleventh; forewings almost translucent, mottled with dark and clear areas.  The distinctions between Calyptoproctus marmoratus and Alphina glauca are not entirely clear.

Calyptoproctus marmoratus from Louisiana.

Calyptoproctus sp. (from Costa Rica; photo by Sara Laskowski, University of Delaware)

This genus is here on bugguide.

Collecting

"Calyptoproctus marmoratus" comes to lights.  It may be possible to find this genus on the trunks of trees. Calyptoproctus in the Neotropics come readily to lights, but I have seldom collected this genus in other circumstances.

Molecular resources: Genbank has several genes for Calyptoproctus sp.; Barcode of life has data for C. marmoratus and C. elegans.

Selected references:

Distant, W. L. 1906. Rhynchotal notes xxxix. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) 18: 191-208.

Dozier, H. L. 1928 [dated 1922 or 1926]. The Fulgoridae or planthoppers of Mississippi, including those of possible occurrence. Technical Bulletin of the Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station 14: 1-152.

Fabricius J. C. 1803. Rhyngota. In: Fabricius J. C. 1803 - Systema Rhyngotorum secundum ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus, 1803. p. 1-101.

Fick, W. 1985. Zur Morphologie und histologie des Darmtraktes von Hyalodictyon truncatum, Calyptoproctus elegans und Fulgora laternaria (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoromorpha). Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Angewandte Entomologie 4(4-6): 180-183.

Hoffman, R. L. 2004. Calyptoproctus marmoratus, a striking planthopper, arrives in Virginia from parts south (Homoptera: Fulgoridae). Banisteria 23: 48-49.

Lallemand, V. 1956. Contribution à l'étude des Fulgoridae (Hemiptera) (1re note). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique XXXII(39): 1-7.

Metcalf, Z. P. 1938. The Fulgorina of Barro Colorado and other parts of Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Coll. 82: 277-423. [available from http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

Metcalf, Z. P. 1947. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV Fulgoroidea. Part 9 Fulgoridae. Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts.

Olivier, G. A. 1791. Fulgore, Fulgora. Encyclopedie méthodique. Histoire naturelle des animaux. Insectes 6: 561-577.

Spinola, M. 1839. Essai sur les Fulgorelles, sous-tribu de la tribu des Cicadaires, ordre des Rhyngotes. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 8: 133-337.

Stål, C. 1854. Nya Hemiptera. Ofversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 11: 231-255.

Stål, C. 1869. Hemiptera Fabriciana. Fabricianska Hemipterarter, efter de Köpenhamn och Kiel förvarade typexemplaren granskade och beskrifne. 2. Handlingar. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademien 8(1): 1-130.

Walker, F. 1858. Supplement. List of the specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. [Published by] Order of Trustees, London. 307 pp.

Wilson, S. W., C. Mitter, R. F. Denno, and M. R. Wilson. 1994. Evolutionary patterns of host plant use by delphacid planthoppers and their relatives. In: R. F. Denno and T. J. Perfect, (eds.). Planthoppers: Their Ecology and Management. Chapman and Hall, New York. Pp. 7-45 & Appendix.