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Family Delphacidae Leach, 1815
Subfamily Delphacinae Leach, 1815
Tribe Delphacini Leach, 1815
Genus Aethodelphax Bartlett and Hamilton, 2011
Type species (in original combination): Aethodelphax prairianus Bartlett and Hamilton, 2011.
Distribution
North America, especially east, and Mexico.
Aethodelphax distribution from Flow (8 June 2017).
Aethodelphax distribution from Flow (8 June 2017).
Recognized species
There are eight species in the genus, all except the type species were removed from Delphacodes.
Aethodelphax aetocephalus (Beamer, 1948a) – USA: FL, LA, MS, TX
Aethodelphax alatus (Beamer, 1948b) – USA: FL
Aethodelphax caninus (Beamer, 1947) – USA: AZ, ?TX; Mexico (Chihuahua State).
Aethodelphax concavus (Beamer, 1948) – USA: FL, GA, TN
Aethodelphax megadontus (Beamer, 1951) – USA: KS, MN, ?MO, WI
Aethodelphax paraparvulus (Beamer, 1948) -. USA: MS
Aethodelphax prairianus Bartlett & Hamilton, 2011 – USA: IL, MI, NE, SD, WI; Canada: Manitoba.
Aethodelphax sagittatus (Beamer, 1947)- USA: FL, GA, LA
Plant associations
Grasses
Aethodelphax prairianus : Andropogon sp., Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash (Poaceae)
Aethodelphax caninus – Muhlenbergia
Economic Importance:
Limited.
Recognition
Pale bodied, carinae concolorous with body; vertex narrow and slightly projecting; male genitalia with armature of diaphragm caudally expanded; parameres pediform with large basal angles; suspensorium conspicuous, flattened and elongate; segment 10 with one or two pair of processes.
Aethodelphax aetocephalus
Aethodelphax alatus
Aethodelphax caninus
Aethodelphax concavus
Aethodelphax megadontus
Aethodelphax paraparvulus
Aethodelphax prairianus
Aethodelphax sagitattus
Online resources
3i.
EOL.
Bugguide.(genus not pressent, link to Delphacinae tree)
Discover Life.
FLOW.
Hoppers of North Carolina. (not present, link to Delphacidae)
Kunzweb Gallery. (not present, link to Delphacidae)
American Insects. (not present, link to Delphacidae)
BOLD.
Molecular resources
Two species in this genus are on BOLD, The genus is absent on GenBank (as of 18 Feb. 2020).
Selected references
Bartlett, C. R. and K.G.A. Hamilton. 2011. Aethodelphax prairianus gen. et sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) and seven congeneric species from North American Delphacodes. Zootaxa 2837: 48–66.
Bartlett, C. R., L. B. O’Brien and S. W. Wilson. 2014. A review of the planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) of the United States. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 50: 1-287.
Beamer, R. H. 1947. Some new species of Delphacodes (continued) with two old ones (Homoptera: Fulgoridae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 20: 58–71.
Beamer, R. H. 1948a. Some new species of Delphacodes (Homoptera: Fulgoridae: Delphacinae), Part IV. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 21: 96–110.
Beamer, R. H. 1948b. Some new species of Delphacodes, Part V (Homoptera: Fulgoridae: Delphacinae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 21: 111–119.
Beamer, R. H. 1951. Some species of Delphacodes, new and old (Homoptera: Fulgoridae: Delphacinae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 24: 11–15.
