Family Derbidae

Subfamily Derbinae

Tribe Cenchreini Muir, 1917

Genus Neocenchrea Metcalf, 1923

Type species: Cenchrea heidemanni Ball, 1902b.

Synonyms: None.

Distribution: USA: eastern US (esp. southeast), Neotropics.

Recognized species

There are 5 species in  the genus

Neocenchrea bakeri McAtee 1924:177 - Mexico
Neocenchrea heidemanni Ball 1902:261 - USA: DC, DE, IL, KS, MD, NC, NJ, OH, VA
Neocenchrea mero Fennah, 1952: 137 - Trinidad
Neocenchrea ochracea Metcalf 1945:128 - Guyana (British Guiana)
Neocenchrea pallida Metcalf 1938:332 - Panama

Economic Importance:

Limited.

Known host plants: 

Neocenchrea sp. - Cocos nucifera L. (coconut palm, Arecaceae), Sabal umbraculifera Mart. (Arecaceae), Veitchia merrillii (Becc.) H.E. Moore (Arecaceae)

Hosts from Wilson et al. 1994; plant names from USDA PLANTS or Tropicos.

Recognition:

Pale, robust; frons compressed but not extremely; pustules along claval vein; clavus closed, media and cubitus each with 2 veins, Lateral margins of pronotum strongly foliate posterior to antennae.

Neocenchrea heidemanni (all photographs and drawings by Kimberley Shropshire, University of Delaware)

This species on bugguide.

Collecting

Occasionally comes to lights.

Molecular resources: As of this writing, there are no molecular data for this genus on Barcode of Life or Genbank.

Selected references:

Ball, E. D. 1902b. New genera and species of North American Fulgoridae. Canadian Entomologist 34: 259-266.

Fennah, R. G. 1952. On the generic classification of Derbidae (Fulgoroidea), with descriptions of new Neotropical species. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 103(4): 109-170.

McAtee, W. L. 1924. Notes on Cenchrea Westwood and Cedusa Fowler in America (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Annals of the Entomological Society of America17: 175-187.

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

Metcalf, Z. P. 1945. Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) of Kartabo, Bartica district, British Guiana. Zoologica. Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society 30: 125-144.

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