[Return to North American Issidae]
Family Issidae Spinola, 1839
Subfamily incertae sedis
[Higher taxonomy revised by Wang et al. 2016; formerly placed in Issinae, Issini, subtribe Hysteropterina; see also Gnezdilov 2016]
Genus Stilbometopius Gnezdilov & O’Brien, 2006
Type species (in original combination): Issus auroreus Uhler, 1876.
Synonyms
None.
Distribution
Texas and Mexico.
Recognized species
There is a single species currently assigned to this genus. [see Metcalf 1958: 228, under Hysteropterum]
Stilbometopius auroreus (Uhler, 1876) – USA: TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas)
= Issus auroreus Uhler 1876: 352.
= Hysteropterum auroreum (Uhler, 1876); comb. by Melichar 1906: 148.
= Stilbometopius auroreus (Uhler, 1876); comb. by Gnezdilov & O’Brien 2006b: 222.
Economic Importance
Limited – this species is uncommon.
Plant associations
None.
Hosts from Wilson et al. 1994; plant names from USDA PLANTS or Tropicos.
Recognition
Hind wings absent or rudimentary; body elongate (relative to Traxus, Paralixes); forewings leathery, not reticulate; intermediate carinae of front (between median and lateral carinae) obsolete, not raised (may be represented by a colored line); frons flat or slightly convex; anterior margin of vertex not medially projecting, nearly truncate; dorsal margin of frons slightly convex; costal border cream colored, other cells in forewing with black dots.
Online resources
Bugguide. (link to Issdae, genus not present)
iNaturalist. (no observations)
FLOW.
EOL.
GBIF.
BOLD. (link to Issdae, genus not present)
GenBank.
3i.
Discover Life.
Collecting
Adults are evidently taken sweeping or beating.
Molecular resources
There are no data for this genus on Barcode of Life; on GenBank there is histone 3 data.
Selected references
Caldwell, J. S. 1945. Notes on Issidae from Mexico (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 38: 89-120.
Doering. K. C. 1938. A contribution to the taxonomy of the subfamily Issinae in America north of Mexico (Fulgoroidea: Homoptera. Part II. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 25(20): 447-575.
Gnezdilov, V. M. 2016. Notes on the phylogenetic relationships of planthoppers of the family Issidae (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea) of the Western Palaearctic fauna, with descriptions of two new genera. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 95(2): 362-382.
Gnezdilov, V. M. and L. B. O’Brien. 2006. Generic changes in United States Issini (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Issidae). Insecta Mundi 20(3-4): 217-225.
Melichar, L. 1906a. Monographie der Issiden. (Homoptera). Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königliche Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 3: 1-327.
Metcalf, Z. P. 1958. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV, Fulgoroidea, Part 15, Issidae. Waverly Press, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland. [p. 228]
Spinola, M. 1839a. Essai sur les Fulgorelles, sous-tribu de la tribu des Cicadaires, ordre des Rhyngotes. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 8: 133-337.
Spinola, M. 1839b. Essai sur les Fulgorelles, sous-tribu de la tribu des Cicadaires, ordre des Rhyngotes. (Suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 8: 339-454.
Uhler, P. R. 1876. List of Hemiptera of the Region West of the Mississippi River, including those collected during the Hayden Exploration of 1873. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 1(5): 269-361 [352].
Wang, M.L., Y.L. Zhang and T. Bourgoin. 2016. Planthopper family Issidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha): Linking molecular phylogeny with classification. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 105: 224-234.
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