Species Metadelphax propinqua

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Planthopper - Metadelphax propinqua - female

Planthopper - Metadelphax propinqua - male

Delphacid? - Metadelphax propinqua - female

Delphacid Planthopper - Metadelphax propinqua

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (True Hoppers)

Infraorder Fulgoromorpha (Planthoppers)

Superfamily Delphacoidea

Family Delphacidae (Delphacid Planthoppers)

Subfamily Delphacinae

Tribe Delphacini

Genus Metadelphax

Species propinqua (Metadelphax propinqua)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Toya propinqua

Explanation of Names

Metadelphax propinqua (Fieber 1866)

propinqua 'near'

Identification

head narrow; wings have a dark mark where they meet over abdomen; large leaflike calcar ("spur") on hind leg [adapted from K.G.A. Hamilton's comments]

Range

cosmopolitan (esp. in tropics and warm temperate regions); adventive in the New World (Canada to Argentina), native to w. Palaearctic and so. Asia(1)(2)

Food

reported on ~15 grass species, incl. sugarcane, barley, Bermuda grass, maize, and rice(2)

Remarks

earliest NA record: CA 1880(3)

See Also

Javesella pellucida has wider head, and wings lack dark mark where they meet over abdomen

Internet References

Genus page - Univ. Delaware(2)

Works Cited

1.	Dmitriev D.A. (2003-) 3I interactive keys and taxonomic databases

2.	Bartlett C.R. and contributors (2017-) Planthoppers of North America

3.	Short-horned bugs (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha) introduced to North America

Contributed by Stephen_WV on 9 August, 2007 - 6:33am
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 1 September, 2017 - 1:01pm

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