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Family Cixiidae Spinola, 1839
Subfamily Cixiinae Spinola, 1839
Tribe Pentastirini Emeljanov, 1971
Genus Remotiarus Hendrix & Bartlett 2025
Type species Oliarus yavapanus Ball, 1934.
Distribution
Southwestern U.S. to central Mexico.
Recognized species
Remotiarus bazarus (Caldwell, 1951): Mexico (Morelos).
Remotiarus forcipatus (Caldwell, 1947): USA (AZ, TX).
Remotiarus uncatus (Caldwell, 1947): USA (AZ).
Remotiarus yavapanus (Ball, 1934): USA: (AZ, CA, TX, UT).
Economic Importance
Not reported as pests.
Plant associations
None reported
Recognition
Small planthoppers (mostly 4–5 mm); dark brown to black; mesonotal carinae orange; wings unmarked or fuscous, veins dark bearing tubercles, RP 2-branched. Male terminalia with pygofer bearing pentagonal medioventral process (in ventral view), much shorter than lateral lobes of pygofer. Periandrium broad, bearing welldeveloped sinistral and dextral processes (ventral view), dorsum with single slender process (dorsal view). Endosoma curved left with indentation at joint with aedeagus (ventral view); apex bearing single spine-like process.
Online resources
Collecting
Specimens are not often encountered.
Selected references
Ball, E.D. 1934. The genus Oliarus and its allies in North America (Homoptera Fulgoriidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 24(6), 268–276.
Bartlett, C.R., L.B. O’Brien & S.W. Wilson. 2014. A review of the planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) of the United States. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 50: 1–287.
Caldwell, J.S. 1947. New species of Oliarus Stål from Southwestern United States and Mexico (Homoptera: Cixiidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 23(4), 145–151.
Caldwell, J.S. 1951. New Cixiidae from Southern North America with notes on others (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). The Ohio Journal of Science, 51(1), 34–36.
Hendrix, S.V. & C.R. Bartlett. 2025. Reclassification of the planthopper genus Melanoliarus Fennah, 1945 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), primarily north of Mexico, with notes on American Pentastirini. Zootaxa 5619(1), 1–87. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5619.1.1
Hoch, H. 2005. On the identity of the type species of the planthopper genus Oliarus Stål, 1862, Oliarus walkeri (Stål, 1859) (Hemiptera: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1056: 53–60.
Holzinger, W.E., A.F. Emeljanov & I. Kammerlander. 2002. The family Cixiidae Spinola 1839 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) – a review. Pp. 113-138. In: Holzinger, W. (ed.). Zikaden: Leafhoppers, Planthoppers, and Cicadas (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Denisia, Volume 4. Oberosterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria. 556 pp.
Mead, F.W. & J.P. Kramer. 1982. Taxonomic study of the planthopper genus Oliarus in the United States (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Cixiidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 107: 381–569.
Metcalf, Z.P. 1923. A key to the Fulgoridae of Eastern North America with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 38 (3), 139–230, 32 pls. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.7606
Metcalf, Z.P. 1936. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV Fulgoroidea . Part 2 Cixiidae. Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts. 269 pp.
Wilson, S.W., C. Mitter, R.F. Denno & 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.
