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Family Delphacidae Leach, 1815
Subfamily Delphacinae Leach, 1815
Tribe Delphacini Leach, 1815
Genus Muellerianella Wagner, 1963
Type species: Delphax fairmairei Perris, 1857.
Distribution
Holarctic.
Muellerianella distribution from FLOW (as of 19 Aug. 2017)
Recognized species
Seven currently recognized species worldwide as follows:
Muellerianella brevipennis (Boheman, 1847) – Europe, except Mediterranean region; Austria, Azores Is., Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands ,Norway, Poland, Sardinia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Yugoslavia (?North European Russia, Romania, Slovakia)
= Delphax brevipennis Boheman, 1847, original combination.
= Delphacodes brevipennis sordidella Metcalf, 1943; syn. apparently by Wagner 1963: 175
= Delphax bivittata Boheman, 1850; syn. by Puton 1886: 74.
= Delphax hyalinipennis Stal, 1854; syn. by Sahlberg 1868: 188, 217.
= Delphax neglecta Flor, 1861; syn. by Sahlberg 1871: 424 (called error in Metcalf 1943: 412, confirmed by Booij 1981: 574)
Muellerianella extrusa (Scott, 1871) – eastern Palearctic (to China); Europe, except Mediterranean region; Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Latvia , Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
= Liburnia extrusa
Muellerianella fairmairei (Perris, 1857) – Southern and western Europe, including western portion of Central Europe; East Palaearctic; Austria, Azores Is., Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Madeira Is., Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Yugoslavia (doubtfully present: Central European Russia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, North European Russia, Romania, Switzerland)
= Delphax fairmairei Perris, 1857
= Delphax neglecta Flor, 1861; syn. by Booij 1981: 574.
= Delphax fairmairei signicollis Rey, 1894; syn. by Wagner 1963: 175.
Muellerianella guaduae (Muir, 1926)
= Euidella guaduae Muir, 1926: 15 – USA: FL; Ecuador.
= Euides guaduae (Muir, 1926); comb. by implication Metcalf, 1952: 230-231 (by implication).
= Muellerianella guaduae (Muir, 1926); comb. by Bartlett et al. 2014: 126.
Muellerianella laminalis (Van Duzee, 1897) – widespread in eastern North America, from Florida to Ontario and Quebec
= Liburnia laminalis Van Duzee, 1897: 251.
= Delphacodes laminalis (Van Duzee, 1897); comb. by Muir and Giffard, 1924: 38.
= Megamelus laminalis (Van Duzee, 1897); comb. by Crawford, 1914: 607, 624.
= Muellerianella laminalis (Van Duzee, 1897); comb. by Maw et. al., 2000: 85.
= Liburnia lateralis Van Duzee, 1897 (Nec. Liburnia striatella var. lateralis Fieber 1879); syn. by Oman, 1947: 212-213.
= Delphacodes lateralis (Van Duzee, 1897); comb. by Muir and Giffard, 1924: 25; syn. by Oman, 1947: 212-213.
= Delphacodes laterana Metcalf, 1943; new name for Delphacodes lateralis (Van Duzee, 1897) by Metcalf, 1943: 458; syn. by Oman, 1947: 212-213.
Muellerianella meadi Kennedy et al. 2012 – USA: Florida, ? Cuba
Muellerianella relicta Logvinenko, 1976 – Azerbaijan, Russia
Plant associations
Mostly grasses, as follows:
Muellerianella brevipennis – Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) P. Beau (Tufted Hairgrass, Poaceae);
Muellerianella fairmairei – Holcus lanatus L. (common velvetgrass), H. mollis L. (creeping velvetgrass); Juncus effusus L. (Common Rush)
Muellerianella extrusa – Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench (purple moorgrass), Setaria pumila (Poir.) Roem. & Schult. (Poaceae); Carex divulsa Gaudin (Poales, Cyperaceae)
Muellerianella relicta – Luzula sp. (Juncaceae)
Muellerianella laminalis – Leersia hexandra Swartz (Poaceae)
Host information from Logvinenko 1976, Drosopoulos 1976, Booij 1982, Drosopoulos 1983, Wilson et al. 1994, Nickel 2003, Holzinger et al. 2003. See Also FLOW for hosts I may have missed.
Predators and parasites
Charletonia cardinalis (c. l. koch, 1837) (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Acari, Trombidiformes, Erythraeidae) on Muellerianella brevipennis; Stroinski et al. (2013: 197).
Economic importance
Muellerianella fairmairei is a vector of Northern cereal mosaic virus (NCMV).
Recognition
In North America, there is only a single described species. It is a robust species, with a dorsal stripe and dark frons, flecked with pale. All species in the genus have an expanded ‘anal angle’ of the male pygofer, and tend to have black flattened parameres.
Muellerianella fairmairei (Type species, a central European taxon)
Muellerianella fairmairei by Gernot Kunz from FLOW.
Muellerianella fairmairei
Muellerianella fairmairei
Muellerianella fairmairei
Muellerianella fairmairei
Muellerianella laminalis – Male brachypter (M. laminalis has 2 subapical retrose processes near the tip of the aedeagus, and 1 caudally directed near the middle; M. meadi has 1 retrose subapical process and 2 caudally directed near the middle; meadi may on average be paler)
Muellerianella laminalis
Muellerianella laminalis
Muellerianella laminalis
Muellerianella laminalis
Muellerianella laminalis
Male macropter
Muellerianella meadi
Muellerianella meadi
Muellerianella meadi
Muellerianella meadi
Muellerianella meadi
Muellerianella meadi
Online resources
FLOW.
Fauna Europaea.
Hoppers of North Carolina.
Bugguide.
EOL.
BOLD.
Discover Life.
Molecular resources
Genbank provides data for several genes for Muellerianella laminalis plus a little data for M. fairmairei; BOLD provides molecular data for 3 species. .
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