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Family Fulgoridae Latreille, 1807
Subfamily Amyclinae Metcalf, 1938
Tribe Amyclini Metcalf, 1938
Genus Scolopsella Ball, 1905
Type species (in original combination): Scolopsella reticulata Ball, 1905.
Synonyms
None.
Distribution
Southwestern US and adjacent Mexico (Baja California Sur, Gulf of California, Sonora).
Distribution of Scolopsella (as of 1 Jan 2021).
Recognized species
This genus has two species. [see Metcalf 1947: 105, also treated O’Brien 1988: 165]
- Scolopsella reticulata Ball, 1905 – USA: AZ, NM, CA; Mexico (Baja California Sur, Gulf of California: Carman Island, Cerralvo [Jacques Cousteau] Island, San Marcos Island, Tiburón Island; Sonora)
- Scolopsella mexicana O’Brien, 1986 – Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur)
Economic Importance
Limited – this genus is uncommonly encountered.
Plant associations
None reported.
Host from Wilson et al. (1994); plant names from USDA PLANTS or Tropicos.
Recognition
Head strongly anteriorly produced (one of only 3 fulgorid genera north of Mexico); cephalic process not substantively narrowed apically (vs. Amycle); Vertex scalloped in lateral view, convex anteriorly, carinae foliaceous, crenulated; sides of head partly obscured by carina in dorsal view (vs. Rhabdocephala).
Key from O’Brien (1986)
Scolopsella reticulata
Scolopsella Mexicana
Salvador Vitanza has some really nice photos of Scolopsella reticulata here. Of particular interest to me were the wings and the male tail – but note the position of the spiracles near the base of the abdomen – large and shifted dorsally.
Dorsum of abdomen of Scolopsella reticulata by Salvador Vitanza.
Wings of Scolopsella reticulata by Salvador Vitanza.
Scolopsella reticulata apex of abdomen lateral view by Salvador Vitanza.
Online resources
Bugguide.
iNaturalist.
FLOW.
EOL.
GBIF.
BOLD.
GenBank. (genus not listed)
3i.
Discover Life.
Flickr.
El Paso Extension (Salvador Vitanza)
There is a nymph photographed here on iNaturalist.
Collecting
The holotype and allotype were taken at a light (O’Brien 1986) (also this one).
Molecular resources
Genbank has no data on Scolopsella; Barcode of Life has data for Scolopsella reticulata.
Selected references
Ball, E. D. 1905. Some new Homoptera from the South and Southwest. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 18: 117-120.
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.
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. [available from http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org]
Metcalf, Z. P. 1947. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV Fulgoroidea. Part 9 Fulgoridae. Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts.
O’Brien, L. B. 1986. Five new species of Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) from the western United States and Mexico. Southwestern Entomologist 11: 67 74.
O’Brien, L. B. 1988. New World Fulgoridae, part 1: genera with elongate head processes. Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 12: 135-170.
Porion, T. 1994. Fulgoridae I: catalogue illustre de la faune americaine. Sciences Nat, Venette.
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.
Wilson, S. W., C. Mitter, R. F. Denno and M. R. Wilson. 1994. Evolutionary patterns of host plant use by delphacid planthoppers and their relatives. In: R. F. Denno and T. J. Perfect, (eds.). Planthoppers: Their Ecology and Management. Chapman and Hall, New York. Pp. 7-45 & Appendix.
