Genus Eurysa Fieber, 1866

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Family Delphacidae Leach, 1815

Subfamily Delphacinae Leach, 1815

Tribe Delphacini Leach, 1815

Genus Eurysa Fieber, 1866: 520.

[Metcalf 1943: 111]

Type species (in original combination): Delphax lineata Perris, 1897

Synonyms (misspellings):

Euryisa Fieber, 1866 in Lambertie (1910: 92).
Euryusa Fieber, 1866 in Edwards (1894: 31).
Eurisa Fieber, 1866 in Fieber (1866: 532).

Distribution

Mostly Palearctic and Afrotropical.  Two species are in this genus from the New World (although these species, and perhaps the Afrotropical, may be misplaced).

Recognized species

A problematic genus that is in need of revision.  A total of 21 names are currently in the genus.

New World

Eurysa dorsilinea (Van Duzee, 1907) – Jamaica, Cuba
= Liburnia (?) dorsilinea Van Duzee, 1907: 50.
= Megamelus dorsilinia [sic] (Van Duzee 1907); comb. by Crawford, 1914: 631.
= Eurysa dorsilinia [sic] (Van Duzee 1907); comb. by Muir & Giffard 1924: 9.
Eurysa kormusi (Crawford, 1914) [Mercalf 1943: 114] – USA: California, Nevada, Utah
= Megamelus kormusi Crawford, 1914 original combination
= Liburnia kormusi (Crawford, 1914), combination by Van Duzee, 1916: 85
= Eurysa kormusi (Crawford, 1914) combination by Muir & Giffard 1924: 9.

Old World

1 Eurysa baetica Remane and Asche 1986 – Spain
Eurysa brunnea Melichar, 1896 (England, Austria, Czech Republic (Moravia), Germany, Hungary, Tunisia) – Now in Eurysella Emeljanov
= Eurysa singeri Kupka, 1941; syn. by Wagner 1963: 174.
2 Eurysa dimidiata Rey, 1891 – France
3 Eurysa duffelsi Drosopoulos et al. 1984 – Crete (Greece)
4 Eurysa estrela Remane and Asche 1986 – Portugal
5 Eurysa etnicola Asche, 1994 – Sicily
6 Eurysa forficula (Horvath, 1908) – France
= Metropis forficula Horvath, 1908: 165.
= Eurysa forficula (Horvath, 1908); comb. by Remane & Asche 1983
7 Eurysa forguja Remane & Asche 1983 – Spain
8 Eurysa foribera Remane & Asche 1983 – Spain, Portugal
9 Eurysa fornasta Asche, Drosopoulos & Hoch, 1983 – Greece
10 Eurysa forocca Remane et al. 1983 – Morocco
11 Eurysa forsicula Asche, Drosopoulos & Hoch, 1983 – Sicily
12 Eurysa fortesta Remane & Asche 1983 – Sicily
13 Eurysa furcifera Muir, 1926 – South Africa
14 Eurysa gylippus Fennah, 1969 – Ethiopia
15 Eurysa immunda Horvath, 1916 – Albania, Italy, “Yugoslavia”
16 Eurysa libira Remane and Asche 1986 – Iraq
17 Eurysa lineata (Perris, 1857) – Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Mongolia, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sicily, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,  Syria, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia
= Delphax lineata Perris, 1857
= Delphax quadrivittata Kirschbaum, 1868
= Eurysa carinata Melichar, 1899
= Eurysa livens Rey, 1894
= Eurysa syriaca Dlabola, 1965
= Eurysa vittata Fieber, 1866 syn. by Fieber (1878).
18 Eurysa meridiana Asche, 1994 – Italy, Sicily
19 Eurysa pyrenea Fieber, 1866 – France, Spain, Channel Islands
Eurysa pyrenea dimidita (Rey, 1891)
20 Eurysa rabatica Lindberg, 1963 – Morocco
21 Eurysa semifrons Muir, 1929 – South Africa

Note the following have been moved into Eurysanoides Holzinger et al. 2003:

Eurysanoides Holzinger, Kammerlander & Nickel, 2003
Eurysanoides douglasi (Scott, 1870)
Eurysanoides flavobrunnea (Dlabola, 1956)
Eurysanoides jorcasa (Asche, 1994)
Eurysanoides rubripes (Matsumura, 1910)

Old combinations (need to check current status or citation of transfer)

Eurysa estrela Asche, 1994 (Error in FLOW, not valid, species described by Remane & Asche 1986 from Portugal))

Eurysa tridentata (Logvinenko 1970) (Comb. by Asche 1994: 256) transferred to Eurysella (as type species) by Emeljanov 1995

Plant associations

Reported from grasses:

Eurysa brunnea – Secale montanum (Perrenial rye)
Eurysa fornasta  – Arrhenatherum elatius (Tall oatgrass)
Eurysa obesa – Elymus sp.

Economic Importance

Probably limited.  The New World species are seldom encountered.

Recognition

New World

Eurysa kormusi

Old World

Eurysa lineata from Gernot Kunz

 

Online resources.

Planthoppers of Slovenia.
British Bugs.
Bugguide.
Fauna Europaea.
EOL.
EU-Nomen.
Barcode of Life.
Discover Life.
GBIF.
FLOW.
Symbiota Scan.
iDigBio.

Molecular resources

At this time (29 Aug 2018), neither Genbank or Bold have any molecular resources for this genus (BOLD records are for species now in Eurybregma).

Selected References

Asche, M. 1982. Beitrage zur Delphaciden-Fauna der Turkei (Anatolien) (Homoptera Cicadina Delphacidae). Marburger Entomologische Publikationen 1(7): 71-98. 1982

Asche, M. 1982. Beitrage zur Delphaciden-Fauna Jugoslawiens und Bulgariens (Homoptera Cicadina Delphacidae). Marburger Entomologische Publikationen 1(7): 99-138.

Asche, M. 1994. Four new species and a new genus of Delphacidae from Southern Europe and Egypt (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 67: 255-275.

Asche, M. and R. Remane. 1982.  Beitrage zur Delphaciden-Fauna Griechenlands I (Homoptera Cicadina Delphacidae). Marburger Entomologische Publikationen 1(6): 231-290.

Asche, M., S. Drosopoulos and H. Hoch. 1983. Eurysa forsicula nov. spec. von Sizilien und Eurysa fornasta nov. spec. von Griechenland, zwei weitere Taxa aus dem E. forficula (Horvath)-Formenkreis (Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha Fulgoromorpha Delphacidae). Marburger Entomologische Publikationen 1(8): 85-94.

Beamer, R. H. 1952. The genus Eurysa in America North of Mexico. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 28: 51-55.

Cziki, E. 1940.  Felszaznyu rovarok. Hemipteren. In: Allattani Kutatasai Albania-ban (Explorationes zoologicae ab E. Cziki in Albania peractae). A Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Balkan-Kutatasaniak Tudomanyos Eredmenyei, Budapest, 1 (2): 289-315.

D’Urso, V. 1995.  Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha.  In: Checklist delle specie della Fauna Italiana 42: 1-35.

Demir, E. 2006. Contributions to the knowledge of turkish Auchenorrhyncha (Homoptera) with a new record, Pentastiridius nanus (Ivanoff, 1885). Munis Entomology & Zoology 1(1): 97-122.

Dlabola, J. 1965. Jordanische Zikaden (Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha) (Bearbeitung der von J. Klapperich im Jahre 1956-9 in Jordanien, Libanon und Syrien gesammelten Ausbeute). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 36: 419-450. [Eurysa syriaca Dlabola, 1965]

Dlabola, J. 1970. Ergebnisse der zoologischen Forschungen vom Dr. Z. Kaszab in der Mongolei. 220: Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 16(1-2): 1-25.

Drosopoulos, S. and M. Asche. 1984. Contribution to the Eurysa lineata (Perris, 1857)-complex with description of E. duffelsi n. sp. (Homoptera: Cicadina, Delphacidae). Entomologische Berichten (Amsterdam) 44(10): 157-159.

Drosopoulos, S., M. Asche, and H. Hoch. 1983. Contribution to the planthopper fauna of Greece. Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoromorpha, Delphacidae). Annales de l’Institut Phytopathologique Benaki (N.S.) 14: 19-68.

Edwards, J. 1894. The Hemiptera Homoptera of the British Islands. 1: 32 pp.

Fieber, F. X. 1866.  Neue Gattungen und Arten in Homoptern (Cicadina Bur.). Verhandlungen der K.K. Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 16: 497-516, pl. 7.

Fieber, F. X. 1872. Katalog der europaischen Cicadinen. Katalog der europaischen Cicadinen, nach Originalen mit Benutzung der neuesten Literatur, 1872: i-iv, 1-19. [Delphax quadrivittata Kirschbaum, 1868]

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Gunthart, H. 2000. Fur die Schweiz neue und wenig gesammelte Zikaden-Arten (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, 3. Erganzung. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 73: 109-114.

Gunthart, H. and R. Muhlethaler. 2002. Provisorische Checklist der Zikaden der Schweiz (Insecta: Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha). Denisia 04, zugleich Kataloge des OO. Landesmuseums, Neue Folge, 176: 329-338.

Holzinger, W. E., I. Kammerlander and H. Nickel. 2003. Fulgoromorpha, Cicadomorpha excluding Cicadellidae. Volume 1. The Auchenorrhyncha of Central Europe. Brill Academic Publishing, Leiden, Netherlands.

Horvath, G. 1908. Description d’un Fulgoride nouveau de France. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France 1908: 165.

Horvath, G. 1916. Albania Hemiptera-Faunaja (Fauna Hemipterorum Albaniae). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 14: 1-16.

Jankovic, L. and R. Papovic. 1981. Nove e retke vrste za fauna cikada (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha) Jugoslavija I. Glas Srpske akademije nauka i umetnosti in Odeljenje prirodno-matematickih Nauka Beograd 48: 121-134.

Kirschbaum, C. L. 1868.  Die Cicadinen der Gegend von Wiesbaden und Frankfurt a.M. nebst einer Anzahl neuer oder schwer zu unterscheidender Arten aus anderen Gegenden Europas. Jahrbuch des Nassauer Vereins fur Naturkunde 21/22: 1-202. [Delphax quadrivittata Kirschbaum, 1868]

Kupka, P. L. B. 1941. Bemerkungen zur mitteleuropaischen Cicadinenfauna in Mitteilungen der Deutschen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 10: 57-62.

Lambertie, M. 1910. Contribution à la faune des Hémiptères, Hétéroptères, Cicadines et Psyllides du Sud-Ouest de la France. (2ème édition). Miscellaneous Entomologica. Revue entomologique internationale 18: 68-94.

Le Quesne, W. J. 1960. Hemiptera (Fulgoromorpha). Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects II (3): 1-68.

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Logvinenko, V. N. 1975. Fulgoroidny cicadovy Fulgoroidea in Fauna Ukrainy 20 (2): 1-287 [in Ukrainian].

Melichar, L. 1899. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Homopteren-Fauna von Tunis. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 18: 175-190. [Eurysa carinata Melichar, 1899]

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

Muir, F.A.G. and W. M. Giffard. 1924. Studies in North American Delphacidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association Division of Entomology 15: 1-53.

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Nast, J. 1987. The Auchenorrhyncha (Homoptera) of Europe in Annales Zoologici Warszawa 40: 535-661.

Nickel, H. 2003. The Leafhoppers and Planthoppers of Germany (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha): patterns and strategies in a highly diverse group of phytophagous insects in Pensoft Series Faunistica No. 28, Sofia-Moscow, Keltern, 1-460.

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Remane, R. and M. Asche. 1986. Makarorysa n. g. – a new genus for the Canaro-Madeiran Eurysa ribauti Lindberg-group with remarks on speciation, distribution and phylogenetic relationship within this taxon (Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha Fulgoromorpha Delphacidae). Marburger Entomologische Publikationen 2(3): 217-258.

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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 [host information in the appendix].