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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoromorpha) » Cixioidea » Delphacid Planthoppers (Delphacidae) » Delphacinae » Delphacini » Megamelus

Genus Megamelus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
planthopper - Megamelus - female Water Lily Planthopper - Megamelus davisi Hopping bugs found on waterlily - Megamelus toddi - male - female Hopper nymphs - Megamelus davisi Planthopper - Megamelus palaetus Planthopper - Megamelus Nymphs(?) on floating leaves - Megamelus davisi UDCC_NRI 00004016 - Megamelus lunatus - male
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 Cixioidea
Family Delphacidae (Delphacid Planthoppers)
Subfamily Delphacinae
Tribe Delphacini
Genus Megamelus
Explanation of Names
Megamelus Fieber 1866
Numbers
19 spp. in our area, ~30 total(1)
Identification
strongly produced head that is much narrower than the thorax (Dr. Hamilton)
Range
Holarctic and Neotropical
Remarks
M. scutellaris is used as biocontrol of water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes
Adults can be brachypterous (1 and 2) or macropterous (3).

Nymph
Print References
Beamer R.H. (1955) A revision of the genus Megamelus in America north of Mexico. J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 28 (installments in several issues)
Internet References
Genus Page - Univ. Delaware(1)
Works Cited
1.Bartlett C.R. and contributors (2017-) Planthoppers of North America
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 21 January, 2005 - 11:48pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 26 February, 2023 - 11:22am

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