Genus Calyptoproctus Spinola, 1839

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1 Family Fulgoridae Latreille, 1807

Family Fulgoridae Latreille, 1807

Subfamily Poiocerinae Haupt, 1929

Tribe Poiocerini Haupt, 1929

Genus Calyptoproctus Spinola, 1839: 266.

Type species (in original combination): Fulgora elegans Olivier, 1788.

Synonyms

None (although Metcalf 1947 lists several misspellings).

Distribution

Central America to South America

Distribution of Calyptoproctus from FLOW (as of 2 Jan 2021).

Recognized species

This genus has 9 species, none north of Mexico. [see Metcalf 1947: 65]

Calyptoproctus aridus Stål, 1869: 88 – “South America”
Calyptoproctus coloratus Distant, 1906: 196 – Ecuador
Calyptoproctus confusus Distant, 1906: 195 – Mexico, Guatemala
Calyptoproctus elegans (Olivier, 1791) – Surinam, Brazil, French Guiana, Honduras
= Fulgora elegans Stoll, 1788: 81. (I think this work may be suppressed)
= Fulgora elegans Olivier, 1791: 574.
= [Lystra] elegans (Olivier), comb. by Germar, 1830: 54.
= [Poiocera elegans (Olivier)], comb. by Burmeister, 1835: 165.
= Calyptoproctus elegans (Olivier), comb. by Spinola, 1839: 269.
Calyptoproctus exsiccatus (Stål, 1854) – Brazil
= L[ystra] exsiccata Stal, 1854: 245.
= C[alyploproctus] exsiccatus (Stål, 1854), comb. by Stål, 1862: 304.
Calyptoproctus fuscipennis Distant, 1906: 197 – Ecuador
Calyptoproctus guttipes (Walker, 1858) – Mexico
= Poiocera guttipes Walker, 1858: 50.
= Calyptoproctus guttipes (Walker, 1858), comb. by Stål 1862: 486.
Calyptoproctus marmoratus Spinola, 1839: 271 – Moved to Scaralina Yanega, 2024.
= Crepusia glauca Metcalf, 1923: 173; syn. by Ball 1933b: 145.
= Alphina glauca auctt. (“auctorum”, i.e., in the sense of subsequent authors)
Calyptoproctus stigma (Fabricius, 1803) – Brazil, Guatemala
= Lystra stigma Fabricius, 1803: 58.
= Calyptoproctus stigma (Fabricius, 1803), comb. by Stål 1869: 87.
= Calyptoproctus lystroides Spinola, 1839: 269 synonym by Stål 1869: 88.
Calyptoproctus weyrauchi Lallemand, 1956 – Peru, French Guiana

Economic Importance

Limited.

Plant associations

None reported.

Recognition

Calyptoproctus sp. (Costa Rica)

Calyptoproctus sp. (Peru)

Calytoproctus fuscipennis (Image by Tanja Popp, Wiki here)

Calyptoproctus sp. (from Costa Rica; photo by Sara Laskowski, University of Delaware)

Type specimen of Calyptoproctus stigma (Fabricius, 1803)

Online resources

Cahurel entomologie (4 species pictured – aridus, coloratus, stigma, weyrauchi)
iNaturalist.
FLOW.
EOL.
GBIF.
BOLD.
GenBank.
3i (World Auchenorrhyncha Database).
Flickr.

Collecting

Calyptoproctus in the Neotropics come readily to lights, but I have seldom collected this genus in other circumstances.

Molecular resources

Genbank has several genes for Calyptoproctus sp.; Barcode of life has data for C. elegans.

Selected references

Bartlett, C.R., L.B. O’Brien and S.W. Wilson. 2014. A review of the planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) of the United States. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 50: 1-287.

Burmeister, H. 1835. Handbuch der Entomologie. Berlin, G. Reimer 2(1): 1-396.

Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchotal notes xxxix. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) 18: 191-208.

Dozier, H.L. 1928 [dated 1922 or 1926]. The Fulgoridae or planthoppers of Mississippi, including those of possible occurrence. Technical Bulletin of the Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station 14: 1-152.

Fabricius, J.C. 1803. Rhyngota. In: Fabricius J. C. 1803. Systema Rhyngotorum secundum ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus, 1803. p. 1-101.

Fick, W. 1985. Zur Morphologie und histologie des Darmtraktes von Hyalodictyon truncatum, Calyptoproctus elegans und Fulgora laternaria (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoromorpha). Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Angewandte Entomologie 4(4-6): 180-183.

Germar, E.F. 1830. Species Cicadarium enumeratae et sub genera distributae. Thon’s Entomologisches Archiv 2(2): 1-57.

Goemans, G. 2006. The Fulgoridae (Hemiptera Fulgoromorpha) of Guatemala. In: E. B. Cano. Biodiversidad de Guatemala, 1. Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala (Guatemala). p. 337-344.

Haupt, H. 1929b. Neueinteilung der Homoptera-Cicadina nach phylogenetisch zu wertenden Merkmalen. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systemetik, Okologie und Geographie der Tiere. Jena 58: 173-286.Hoffman, R.L. 2004. Calyptoproctus marmoratus, a striking planthopper, arrives in Virginia from parts south (Homoptera: Fulgoridae). Banisteria 23: 48-49.Lallemand, V. 1956. Contribution à l’étude des Fulgoridae (Hemiptera) (1re note). Bulletin de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique XXXII(39): 1-7.

Latreille, P.A. 1807. Sectio secunda. Familia quarta. Cicadariae. Cicadaires. Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum secundum ordinem naturalem in familias disposita, iconibus exemplisque plurimis explicata 3: 1-258.Metcalf, Z.P. 1938. The Fulgorina of Barro Colorado and other parts of Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Coll. 82: 277-423.Metcalf, Z. P. 1947. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV Fulgoroidea. Part 9 Fulgoridae. Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts. (see p. 65)

Olivier, G. A. 1791. Fulgore, Fulgora. Encyclopedie méthodique. Histoire naturelle des animaux. Insectes 6: 561-577.

Porion, T. 1994. Fulgoridae I: catalogue illustre de la faune americaine. Sciences Nat, Venette.

Spinola, M. 1839. Essai sur les Fulgorelles, sous-tribu de la tribu des Cicadaires, ordre des Rhyngotes. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 8: 133-337. (p. 266)

Stål, C. 1854. Nya Hemiptera. Ofversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 11: 231-255.

Stål, C. 1862a. Novae vel minus cognitae Homopterorum formae et species. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 6: 303-315.

Stål, C. 1862b. Synonymiska och systematiska anteckningar öfver Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 19: 479-504.

Stål, C. 1869. Hemiptera Fabriciana. Fabricianska Hemipterarter, efter de Köpenhamn och Kiel förvarade typexemplaren granskade och beskrifne. 2. Handlingar. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademien 8(1): 1-130.

Urban, J.M. and J.R. Cryan. 2009. Entomologically famous, evolutionarily unexplored: The first phylogeny of the lanternfly family Fulgoridae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 50: 471-484.

Walker, F. 1858. Supplement. List of the specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. [Published by] Order of Trustees, London. 307 pp. (see p. 288)

Yanega, D., Goemans, G., Van Dam, M., Gómez-Marco, F., & HODDLE, M. 2024. Description of a new genus of North and Central American planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) with fourteen new species. Zootaxa, 5443: 1–53. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5443.1.1