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Family Delphacidae Leach, 1815
Subfamily Delphacinae Leach, 1815
Tribe Tropidocephalini Muir, 1915
Genus Procidelphax Bartlett 2010
Distribution: western South America
Distribution of Procidelphax (from FLOW 20 July 2017)
Type species (in original combination): Procidelphax depressa Bartlett, 2010
Recognized species
There are two species currently described in this genus.
Procidelphax dejecta Bartlett 2010 – Bolivia
Procidelphax depressa Bartlett 2010 – Peru
Hosts:
None reported (all specimens collected at lights).
Economic Importance: Limited.
Recognition
The only strongly flattened Tropidocephaline. Also, the carina of the frons is forked near the base of the eyes. Oddly, only males are known (so far) for this genus.
Photos and plates from Bartlett (2010).
Procidelphax dejecta
Procidelphax depressa
Molecular resources
There are no data on this genus in Genbank or BOLD.
Selected references
Bartlett, C. R. 2010 (dated 2009). A new genus of new world Tropidocephalini (Hemiptera: Delphacidae: Delphacinae), with the description of two new species. Entomological News 120(4): 387-396.
Bartlett, C. R. and A. C. Kennedy. 2018. A review of New World Malaxa (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Delphacidae). Zootaxa 441(3): 511-528. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4441.3.5
Leach, W. E. 1815a. Entomology. The Edinburg encyclopedia; conducted by David Brewster 9: 57-172. (family Delphacidae p. 125).
Muir, F.A.G. 1915b-e. A contribution towards the taxonomy of the Delphacidae. Canadian Entomologist 47: 208-212, 261-270, 296-302, 317-320.
