Family Derbidae

Subfamily Derbinae

Tribe Cenchreini Muir, 1917

Genus Persis Stål, 1862

Type species: Persis pugnax Stål, 1862c.

Synonyms:  None.

Subgenera

Persis (Anapersis) Fennah, 1952 (type species Neocenchrea gregaria Fennah 1945)
Persis (Eritalaena) Fennah, 1952 (Type species Persis fuscinervis Muir 1918)
Persis (Persis) Stål, 1862 (type species Persis pugnax Stål, 1862)

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Distribution: Southwestern USA and Neotropics.

Recognized species

Two species occur in the southwestern US, the remaining species are Neotropical.

Subgenus Persis
Persis (Persis) fabriciana Metcalf 1938:326 (replacement name for Cicada lineata Fabricius 1803:66) - South America

Persis (Persis) foveatis Caldwell 1944:106 - Mexico
Persis (Persis) novacula Fennah 1952:40 - Trinidad
Persis (Persis) pugnax Stal 1862:8 - Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
Persis (Persis) stali Muir 1918:417 - Guyana, Surinam

Subgenus Anapersis

Persis (Anapersis) arizonensis O'Brien 1986:72 - USA: AZ; Mexico (Sonora)
Persis (Anapersis) ferox O'Brien 1986: 70 - USA: AZ; Mexico (Sonora)
Persis (Anapersis) gregaria (Fennah 1945) - Trinidad, St. Vincent, Grenada, St. Lucia
Persis (Anapersis) pallescens (Metcalf 1938:332) - Panama
Persis (Anapersis) spreta (Fowler 1900:74) - Mexico

Subgenus Eritalaena
Persis (Eritalaena) fuscinervis Muir 1918:417 - Guyana

Economic Importance:

Limited.

Known host plants: 

None?

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

Recognition:

Pale, robust; frons compressed but not extremely; lateral margins of pronotum weakly modified, pustules along claval vein; clavus closed, media and cubitus each with 2 branches; pygofer with medioventral process.

Persis stali (photo courtesy Lois O'brien)

Persis ferox (photographs by Kimberley Shropshire, University of Delaware)

This genus on bugguide.

Collecting

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

Selected references:

Caldwell, J. S. 1944. The tribe Cenchreini with special references to the Cenchrea complex (Homoptera: Derbidae). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 39: 99-110.

Fennah, R. G. 1945. New Lanternflies (Fulgoroidea) From South America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 96(3189): 95-106.

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.

Fowler, W. W. 1900. Order Rhynchota. Suborder Hemiptera-Homoptera. (Continued). Key to the genera of the subfamily Ricaniinae and descriptions of the n. spp. of this subfamily and the family Derbidae. Biologia Centrali-Americana 1: 57-76.

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. 1938. 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.

Muir F. A. G. 1918. Homopterous notes II. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society. Honolulu 3: 414-429.

O'Brien L. B. 1986. Five new species of Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) from the western United States and Mexico. Southwestern Entomologist 11(2): 67-74.

Stål, C. 1862c. Bidrag till Rio de Janeiro-tratkens Hemipterfauna.II. Handlingar. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademien. Stockholm 3(6): 1-75.

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