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Contents
Family Derbidae Spinola 1839
Subfamily Derbinae Spinola 1839
Tribe Cenchreini Muir, 1917
Genus Oropuna Fennah, 1952
Type species: Phaciocephalus minutianus Caldwell, 1944, by original designation and monotypy.
Synonyms
None
Subgenera
None
Distribution
Neotropical
Recognized species.
Oropuna fusca (Metcalf, 1938) – Panama
= Syntames fuscus Metcalf, 1938, original description
= Herpis fuscus (Metcalf), implied new combination by O’Brien (1987): 384
= Oropuna fusca (Metcalf), combination by Bahder et al. (2021): 127
Oropuna halo Bahder & Barlett, 2021 – Costa Rica
Oropuna minutiana (Caldwell, 1944) – Guatemala and Mexico (Chiapas), I have specimens purported to be this species from Bolivia
= Phaciocephalus minutianus Caldwell, 1944:102.
= Oropuna minutiana (Caldwell, 1944), comb. to Fennah (1952): 137
Oropuna orba (Stål, 1862) – Brazil Southeast (Rio de Janeiro)
= Herpis orba Stål, 1862 original combination
= Phaciocephalus orba (Stål, 1862), combination by Muir (1924): 16
= Oropuna orba (Stål, 1862), combination by Bahder et al. (2021): 127
Economic Importance
Limited.
Plant associations
None reported in Wilson et al. 1994.
Recognition
A provisional key to the genera of Cenchreini is here.
All Cenchreini have the pronotum behind the antenna modified into a foliaceous semi-circle, subtending the antenna.
Fennah 1952 described the genus as follows
Vertex distinctly broader than long in middle, apically transverse; lateral margins broadly explanate and beset with sensory pits; frons only slightly more than twice as long as broad; disc not depressed, ecarinate, lateral margins not elevated; clypeus slightly shorter than frons, genae devoid of subantennal process; antennae small, second segment scarcely twice as long as broad. Pronotum moderately long, medially carinate, posteriorly shallowly angulately excavate, a deep antennal fovea developed on each side. Tegmina with subcostal cell long. Anal segment of male extremely short. Pygofer with a large subquadrate or trapezoidal medioventral process. Genital styles in ventral view with two processes directed mesocaudad. Aedeagus bilaterally symmetrical. Hind margin of pregenital sternite of female produced caudad in a semicircular lobe.
This genus is distinguished by the shape of the head, anal segment, medioventral process of pygofer, genital styles and symmetrical aedeagus. It is similar in since (relatively large for Cenchreini) and build to Herpis. Herpis has a quadrate frons (disc appearing flat, rather than concave) with a median carina; Oropuna has the face weakly concave and the median carina of the frons is absent. Also, as presently comprised, the Oropuna species have a grey cast, whereas Herpis appear more stramineous (it is not clear if that generalization will hold as new taxa discovered and obscure species are reviewed).
Online resources
FLOW.
GBIF.
BOLD. (genus not present, link to family)
GenBank. (genus not present, link to family search)
iNaturalist. (genus not present, link to tribe)
Flickr. (genus not present, link to family search)
EOL.
Collecting
Attracted to lights?
Molecular resources
As of this writing, there are no COI barcode data for Oropuna on BOLD (link to family), and no other molecular data for Oropuna on Genbank.
Selected references
Bahder, B. W., Zumbado Echavarria M. A., Barrantes Barrantes E. A., Helmick E. E. & Bartlett C. R. 2021. A new species of planthopper in genus Herpis (Hemiptera: Derbidae) from lowland tropical rainforest in Costa Rica. Zootaxa 5032(1): 121-135. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5032.1.7
Bahder, B. W., Echavarria, M. A. Z., Barrantes, E. A. B., Helmick, E. E., & Bartlett, C. R. 2021. A new species of planthopper from Costa Rica in the genus Oropuna from palms in lowland tropical rainforest. Zootaxa 5081(1): 116–130. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5081.1.4
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.
Emeljanov, A. F. 1995. On the problem of a system and a phylogeny of the family Derbidae (Homoptera, Cicadina). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 73(4): 783-811 & 946-947. [Russian] [English Translation: Emeljanov. 1996. Entomological Review 75(2): 70-100]
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. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1952.tb01063.x
Metcalf, Z. P. 1938. The Fulgorina of Barro Colorado and other parts of Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 82: 277-423.
Muir, F. A. G. 1917a. The Derbidae of the Philippine Islands. Philippine Journal of Science 12: 49-105.
Muir, F. A. G. 1924. Notes on some genera of Derbidae (Hemip.). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 26: 15-19.
O’Brien L. B. 1987. Corrections and additions to Metcalf’s ‘The Fulgorina of Barro Colorado and other parts of Panama’ (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 80(3): 379-390.
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. 1862. 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. (here)