A key to the Fulgoridae of Eastern North America with descriptions of new species

Metcalf, Z. P.

doi:10.5962/bhl.part.7606

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“…Rhynchomitra recurva (Metcalf): This seldomcollected species, described from North Carolina by Metcalf (1923), was not included among dictyopharids of weeping lovegrass by Wilson & Wheeler (2005). Its host plants are unknown.…”

Section: Dictyopharidaementioning

confidence: 98%

Planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) Diversity of Weeping Lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula), an Introduced Host of Little-Known, Rarely Collected Native Species

Wilson

Wheeler

2010

Entomologica Americana

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Section: Dictyopharidaementioning

confidence: 98%

Planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) Diversity of Weeping Lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula), an Introduced Host of Little-Known, Rarely Collected Native Species

Wilson

Wheeler

2010

Entomologica Americana

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“…It was subsequently transferred to Dicranotropis (with uncertainty) by Van Duzee (1916). Metcalf (1923: 148) excluded it from his treatment of eastern planthoppers because “the male genitalia have not been described”. Subsequently, Muir and Giffard (1924: 12) provided a brief description of the genitalia and transferred it to Stenocranus .…”

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The planthopper genus Spartidelphax, a new segregate of Nearctic Delphacodes (Hemiptera, Delphacidae)

Bartlett¹,

Webb²

2014

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The new genus Spartidelphax is described to house three species removed from the polyphyletic genus Delphacodes. The members of Spartidelphax are coastal species native to eastern North America, and probably feed exclusively on cordgrass (Poaceae, Spartina Schreb.). The taxonomy and nomenclature of the included species (viz. Spartidelphax detectus, Spartidelphax luteivittus, and Spartidelphax penedetectus) are reviewed. Spartidelphax luteivittus is a nomen dubium, whose type material is inadequate to provide diagnostic features contrasting with Spartidelphax detectus and Spartidelphax penedetectus. Diagnoses and a key are provided for the remaining Spartidelphax.

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“…Throughout much of the taxonomic and ecological literature dealing with the Fulgoroidea, reference is made to the occurrence of wing polymorphism especially in the Delphacidae, Issidae and Dictyopharidae (e.g. Metcalf, 1923 ;Swezey, 1936;Osborn, 1938;DuBose, 1960). Most species produce two discrete alary morphs: flightless brachypterous forms, with abbreviated mesothoracic and vestigial metathoracic wings, and macropterous forms where both pairs of wings are fully developed allowing for flight and dispersal.…”

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Ecological significance of wing polymorphism in Fulgoroidea which inhabit tidal salt marshes

Denno

1976

Ecological Entomology

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The vegetation of New Jersey tidal salt marshes is composed primarily of two grasses, Spartina patens, which occupies a narrow elevational zone of high marsh and varies little in structure from site to site, and Spartina alterniflora, an intertidal species which occurs as two spacially separated growth forms (tall and short). Fulgoroids, polymorphic for wing length, inhabit these grasses. Populations of the common fulgoroid inhabiting short form S.alterniflora were composed of equal numbers of macropters and brachypters. Mesothoracic wings of brachypters were subequal in length to the abdomen allowing for short but inefficient flights compared to macropters. Fulgoroids residing in S.patens produced mostly brachypters having small meso‐and vestigial metathoracic wings and were incapable of flight. Brachypter density of all fulgoroids was correlated with the seasonal increase in biomass of the host grass, while macropter density was not. Peak macropter density occurred shortly before maximum biomass of the host grass was attained. The production of macropterous forms was correlated with high levels of crowding incurred during nymphal stages. Spatial and temporal variation in the structure of the host grasses and habitat reliability are suggested as important factors dictating the wing‐polymorphism strategies of fulgoroids.

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A key to the Fulgoridae of Eastern North America with descriptions of new species

Cited by 35 publications

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Planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) Diversity of Weeping Lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula), an Introduced Host of Little-Known, Rarely Collected Native Species

Planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) Diversity of Weeping Lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula), an Introduced Host of Little-Known, Rarely Collected Native Species

The planthopper genus Spartidelphax, a new segregate of Nearctic Delphacodes (Hemiptera, Delphacidae)

Ecological significance of wing polymorphism in Fulgoroidea which inhabit tidal salt marshes

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