[Return to North American Issidae]
Contents
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 Tylanira Ball, 1936
Type species (in original combination): Tylanira bifurca Ball, 1936.
Synonyms
None.
Distribution
Southwestern US and Mexico.
Recognized species
There are two species currently assigned to this genus. [See Metcalf 1958: 407, revised Doering 1938: 454, as Tylana].
Tylanira bifurca Ball, 1936: 156 – USA: AZ, TX; Mexico (Coahuila)
Tylanira ustulata (Uhler, 1876) – USA: AZ, CO, NM; Mexico (Tiburón Island)
= Tylana ustulata Uhler, 1876: 354.
= Hysteropterum ustulata (Uhler, 1876); comb. by O’Brien 1988a: 868.
= Hysteropterum morum Van Duzee, 1923: 191; syn. by O’Brien 1988a: 868.
= Tylanira ustulata (Uhler, 1876); comb. by Gnezdilov & O’Brien 2006b: 223.
Economic Importance
Limited.
Plant associations
- Tylanira bifurca – Prosopis sp. (mesquite, Fabaceae)
- Tylanira ustulata – Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC.
Hosts from Wilson et al. 1994; plant names from USDA PLANTS or Tropicos.
Recognition
Hind wings absent or rudimentary, body elongate (not rounded as in Paralixes), wings not strongly reticulate; intermediate carinae of front present, raised; Vertex deeply emarginate at apex forming lateral triangular projections inclined upward.
I have images of a specimen purported to be Tylanira ustulata, but if it is correctly identified then I am skeptical it is congeneric. I Will post after I verify.
Online resources
Bugguide. (no records)
FLOW.
Arizona State (Flickr).
iNaturalist. (no observations)
EOL.
GBIF
BOLD.
GenBank.
Collecting
Adults are evidently taken sweeping or beating.
Molecular resources
Both Barcode of Life and Genbank have COI data for Tylanira ustulata.
Selected references
Ball, E. D. 1936. Some new Issidae, with notes on others-(Homoptera-Fulgoridae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 49: 155-157.
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. (p. 454 as Tylana)
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.
Metcalf, Z. P. 1958. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV, Fulgoroidea, Part 15, Issidae. Waverly Press, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland.
O’Brien, L. B. 1988. Taxonomic changes in North American Issidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 81(6): 865-869.
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. (see p. 365).
Van Duzee, E. P. 1923. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Gulf of California in 1921 – The Hemiptera (True Bugs, etc.). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 4) 12: 123-200. (see P. 191)
Ward, C. R., C. W. O’Brien, L. B. O’Brien, D. E. Foster and E. W. Huddleston. 1977. Annotated checklist of New World insects associated with Prosopis (Mesquite). USDA Technical Bulletin Number 1557. Pp. i-v, 1-115.
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.