Genus Paraliburnia Jensen-Haarup, 1917

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Family Delphacidae Leach, 1815

Subfamily Delphacinae Leach, 1815

Tribe Delphacini Leach, 1815

Genus Paraliburnia Jensen-Haarup, 1917: 1.

Type species: Paraliburnia jacobseni Jensen-Haarup, 1917: 2, junior. synonym of Delphax concolor Fieber, 1866b and Delphax adela Flor, 1861.

Distribution

Holarctic (as currently defined).

Recognized species

There are 5 described species in this genus (sensu Hamilton 2002).

New World

Paraliburnia furcata Hamilton 2002 – Canada; British Columbia

Paraliburnia kilmani (Van Duzee, 1897) – USA: Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Washington; Canada: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon
= Liburnia kilmani Van Duzee 1897: 253.
= Delphacodes kilmani (Van Duzee, 1897); comb. by Muir & Giffard 1924: 20.
= Javesella kilmani (Van Duzee, 1897); comb. by Wilson 1992: 97.
= Paraliburnia kilmani (Van Duzee, 1897); comb. by Hamilton 2002a: 22.

Paraliburnia lecartus Hamilton 2002 – Canada: British Columbia

Old World

Paraliburnia adela (Flor, 1861) – Widespread in Europe except far north and Mediterranean region (Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden); also Siberia, Kazakhstan, China.
= Delphax adela Flor, 1861; Original combination
= Delphacodes adela (Flor, 1861); comb. by China, 1938.
= Liburnia adela (Flor); comb. by Scott, 1870: 26.
= Liburnia signoreti Edwards, 1886 [nec Scott]; synonym by Haupt, 1935.
= Paraliburnia jacobseni Jensen-Haarup, 1917; syn with P. adela by Wagner (1963)
= Delphax ochroleuca Kirschbaum, 1868: 30; syn [with Delphax concolor Fieber. 1866] by Puton 1885a: 138.
= Liburnia ochroleuca (Kirschbaum); comb. by Fieber, 1872: 6.
= Delphax sordida Kirschbaum, 1868; syn. in Wagner 1963.
= Paraliburnia jacobseni Jensen-Haarup; syn with Delphax concolor Fieber, 1866b by Jensen-Haarup 1920: 15.
= Delphax concolor Fieber, 1866b; syn with P. adela by Wagner (1963)

Paraliburnia clypealis (Sahlberg, 1871) – Northern Europe and lowlands of north central Europe (Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden).
= Liburnia clypealis Sahlberg, 1871: 454; original combination.
= Delphax clypealis (Sahlberg, 1871); comb. by Puton 1875: 120.
= Delphacodes clypealis (Sahlberg, 1871); comb by Metcalf 1943: 417.
= Paraliburnia clypealis (Sahlberg, 1871); comb. by Wagner, 1963.

Economic importance

Limited. Status listed as insufficiently known in Britian.

Plant associations

Known hosts are grasses and sedges.

Paraliburnia adela – Phalaris arundinacea L.

Paraliburnia clypealis – Calamagrostis canescens, Molinia caerulea, Rhynchospora spp., Eriophorum spp.;Carex spp.

Plant associations from  Holzinger et al. (2003: 367), Helden & Sheridan (2006), Gebicki et al. (2013: 36).  See also FLOW.

Recognition

Paraliburnia adela

Paraliburnia kilmani

Online Resources.

FLOW.
Kunzweb Gallery.
BOLD.
EOL.
Bugguide.
3i.
Discover Life.
Fauna Europaea.
British bugs. (not there but should be)
Natural History Museum.
Spencer Entomological Collection at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum.

Molecular resources:

At this time BOLD provides molecular data for Paraliburnia kilmani but no other species; this genus.   GenBank provides data for Paraliburnia kilmani and a little for P. adela.

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