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Family Delphacidae Leach, 1815
Subfamily Delphacinae Leach, 1815
Tribe Delphacini Leach, 1815
Tragediana Campodonico, 2017
Synonyms: None
Typpe species – Tragediana chusqueae Campodonico, 2017 –
Distribution
Chile
Distribution of Tragediana chusqueae (from FLOW 21 March 2018)
Included species
This genus has a single species
Tragediana chusqueae Campodonico, 2017 – Chile (Biobío, La Araucania, Maule)
Plant associations
Chusquea sp. (Poales, Poaceae: Bambusodae: Bambuseae: Chusqueinae); chusquea bamboo
Recognition
Diagnosis from Campodonico, 2017: Eumetope (~frons) completely and coarsely bicarinate and devoid of sensorial pits; pygofer not elongate, with caudally projected armature of diaphragm; genital styles sigmoidal with tips apically convergent; segment X without processes.
Campodonico speculated that this taxon is most closely related to Neodelphax, which seems perfectly reasonable.
Tragediana chusqueae Campodonico 2017 habitus from original publication.
Tragediana chusqueae Campodonico 2017 male terminalia from original publication.
Tragediana chusqueae Campodonico 2017 ovipositor from original publication.
Online resources
[still to come]
Molecular resources
none.
References.
Campodonico, J. F. 2017. Tragediana chusqueae gen. et sp. nov., a Delphacini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Delphacidae) from south central Chile. Annales Zoologici Warszawa 67(4): 673-678. (BioOne)
Campodonico J. F., and C. Coccia. 2019. New genus and species of Delphacini (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) from a salt marsh in northern Chile. Zootaxa 4550(1): 146-150. [species noted] [pdf, if the link works]
Leach, W. E. 1815a. Entomology. The Edinburg encyclopedia; conducted by David Brewster 9: 57-172. (family Delphacidae here).
