Family Dictyopharidae

Subfamily Orgeriinae Fieber, 1872

Tribe Orgeriini Fieber, 1872

Genus Ticrania Emeljanov 2006

Type species (in original combination): Ticida chamberlini Van Duzee, 1923.

Synonyms: None.

Distribution: Southern (probably coastal) California and Mexico (Baja California and Gulf of California).

Recognized species

There is a single species currently in the genus:

Ticrania chamberlini (Van Duzee, 1923) - USA: CA; Mexico (Baja California, Ángel de la Guarda Island)
    = Ticida chamberlini Van Duzee, 1923: 187.
    = Ticrania chamberlini (Van Duzee, 1923); comb. by Emeljanov 2006: 73.

Economic Importance:

Limited.

Known host plants: 

None.

Plant names from USDA PLANTS or Tropicos.

Recognition:

Brachypterous, leaving several terga visible from above, tegulae hidden (all Orgeriinae); no callosity behind eye; head rounded or angulate, produced in front of eyes for distance less than 2/3 width of eyes. Vertex broad and short; apical cell of vertex (areolet) absent; front without horizontal black band above frontoclypeal suture; fore and middle tibiae not foliaceous; pronotum with lateral carinae, posterior margin deeply U-shaped; forewing with uniform net of veins (Most similar to Ticida, which has a black band above the frontoclypeal suture).

Keys to genus of US Orgeriinae in Doering & Darby 1943 and Doering (1955).

Ticrania chamberlini (Holotype; photos courtesy Norm Penny, California Academy of Sciences, Dept. Entomology)

Ticrania is not present on Bugguide.

Collecting

Found by inspecting (or beating) putative hosts.

Molecular resources: As of this writing, data for this genus is not available on Genbank or on Barcode of life.

Selected references:

Ball, E. D. 1937. Some new Fulgoridae from Western United States. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 32: 171-183.

Doering, K. C. 1955. Some taxonomic and morphological studies of two genera of North American Dictyopharidae. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37(7): 195-221.

Doering, K. C. and H. H. Darby. 1943. A contribution to the taxonomy of the genus Orgerius in America, north of Mexico (Fulgoridae, Homoptera). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 16(2-3): 64-98.

Emeljanov, A. F. 1983. Dictyopharidae from the Cretaceous deposits on the Taymyr Peninsula (Insecta, Homoptera). Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 3: 79-85 [In Russian; translated in: Paleontological Journal 17(3): 77-82].

Emeljanov, A. F. 2006. Taxonomic changes in American Ogeriinae (Homoptera; Dictyopharidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 15:73-76.

Metcalf, Z. P. 1946. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV Fulgoroidea. Part 8 Dictyopharidae. Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts.

Van Duzee, E. P. 1923a. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Gulf of California in 1921 - The Hemiptera (True Bugs, etc.). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Ser. 4) 12: 123-200.

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.