Genus Neoperkinsiella Muir, 1926

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Family Delphacidae Leach, 1815

Subfamily Delphacinae Leach, 1815

Tribe Delphacini Leach, 1815

Genus Neoperkinsiella Muir, 1926

Type species: Neoperkinsiella williamsi Muir, 1926 (a junior synonym of Neoperkinsiella testacea (Fowler, 1905)).

Distribution

Tropical northern South America and southern Central America (no map in FLOW).

Recognized species

There are two described species in this genus.

Neoperkinsiella guaduae Muir, 1926 – Ecuador
Neoperkinsiella testacea (Fowler, 1905) – Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama (Canal Zone)
= Goniolcium testaceum Fowler, 1905: 133; original combination.
= Stobaera testacea (Fowler, 1905); comb. by Crawford (1914: 576).
= Neoperkinsiella testacea (Fowler, 1905); comb. by Kramer 1973: 400.
= Neoperkinsiella williamsi Muir, 1926 ; syn. by Kramer 1973: 400.

There were  erroneous entries in FLOW “Neoperkinsiella bulli Fennah, 1979″ (Papua New Guinea – which is now fixed).

Economic importance

Limited.

Plant associations

Muir (1926) reported Neoperkinsiella guaduae from Guadua sp. (Poaceae; Bambusoideae), a thorny bamboo, near Mera, Ecuador (Pastaza province).

Recognition

An apparently uncommon genus, similar to Stobaera with the flattened antennae, but larger and with different genitalia (in Stobaera segment 10 has only a midventral process in caudal view and the shape of the parameres is quite different).  Stobaera is rare from South America (Stobaera occurs throughout Central America).  Kramer (1973) synonymized williamsi with guaduae.

I do have some specimens that appear to be Neoperkinsiella guaduae, although I have not confirmed this.  Size and shape are similar to testacea, but the frons pattern is quite different.

 Neoperkinsiella testacea

 

Neoperkinsiella guaduae

Online resources.

FLOW.
Discover life.
EOL.
3i.

Molecular resources

None.

Selected References

Crawford, D. L. 1914. A contribution toward a monograph of the homopterous insects of the family Delphacidae of North and South America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 46: 557-640.

Fennah, R. G. 1979. New species and new records of Perkinsiella (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) from Papua, New Guinea. Bulletin of Entomological Research. London 69: 507-517 [514].

Fowler, W. E. 1905. Order Rhynchota. Suborder Hemiptera-Homoptera (Continued). Biologia Centrali-Americana; or contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America 1: 125-139

Kramer, J. P. 1973. Revision of the American planthoppers of the genus Stobaera (Homoptera: Delphacidae) with new distributional data and host plant records. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 75: 379-402. (see p. 400).

Leach, W. E. 1815a. Entomology. The Edinburg encyclopedia; conducted by David Brewster 9: 57-172. (family Delphacidae here)

Metcalf, Z. P. 1943. General Catalogue of the Hemiptera. Fascicle IV, Fulgoroidea, Part 3, Araeopidae (Delphacidae). Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts. 552 pp. (p. 289).

Muir, F.A.G. 1926b. Contributions to our knowledge of South American Fulgoroidea (Homoptera). Part I. The Family Delphacidae. Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, Entomological Series, Bulletin 18:1-51, plates 1-5.