New World Fulgoridae, Part 1: Genera with Elongate Head Processes Lois B
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Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs Volume 12 Research in the Auchenorrhyncha, Article 11 Homoptera: A Tribute to Paul W. Oman 10-1-1988 New World Fulgoridae, Part 1: genera with elongate head processes Lois B. O'Brien Entomology, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbnm Recommended Citation O'Brien, Lois B. (1988) "New World Fulgoridae, Part 1: genera with elongate head processes," Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs: Vol. 12 , Article 11. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbnm/vol12/iss1/11 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Western North American Naturalist Publications at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. NEW WORLD FULGORIDAE, PART I: GENERA WITH ELONGATE HEAD PROCESSES Lois B. OBi-it-n' Abstract.—Genera new to science described below include: Amerzanna, Sinuala, and Staluhra. New species include: Amerzanna peruana (Peru), Amijcle hrevis (Mexico), A. grandis (Mexico), A. mankimi (Honduras), Aphro- disias shaman (Mexico), Enchophora maculata and E. uniformis (Peru), Phrictus delicatiis (Brazil), P. dilinen.s (Colombia), Sinuala schmidti (Belize), S. stall (Honduras and El Salvador), S. tuherculata (Costa Rica), and Staluhra brunnea (Brazil and Guyana). In addition, Artacie dufourii (Signoret) is removed from synonymy with A. haemoptcra (Perty). New generic synonymy includes C/H/oi>ifl Stal(= Ecuadoria) Distant, En/iyr/na (Walker) (= UluhraStdl). New synonymy of species includes: Copidocephala merula Distant (= Coanaco melanoptera Schmidt), Copiducephala viridiguttata Stal (= Coanaco ornanda Distant), Diareusa conspersa Schmidt (= D. dahli Ossiannilsson), Enchophora nigromactdata Distant (= E. nigrolimhata Lallemand), Enchophora recurva (Olivier) (= £. hohemani Stal), Kri- chophora sanguinea Distant (= £. /Zorens Distant and E. longirostris Distant), Enchophora tuberctdatu (Ohvit'r) (= E. parvipennis Walker), Enchophora viridipennis Spinola (= E. emincnta Schmidt), Enhydria tessellata (Walker) (= £. brachialis Stal), Fulgora graciliceps Blanchard (= Laternaria orthocephahi Fonseca), Fulgora laternaria (Linnaeus) (= F. servillei Spinola), Phrictus auromactdatus Distant (= P. notatus Lellemand), Phrictus moebiusi Schmidt (= P. sordidus Caldwell). The two species of Fulgora are synonymized by Ridout. New combinations include Chilobia dichopteroides (Distant) (Ecuadoria) and Stahtbra ruftda (Lallemand) (Enhydria). Although the genera of New World Fulgori- Van Duzee on Baccharis sarothroides Gray. dae were monographed in an excellent paper Johnson and Foster (1986) explored host by Stal (1870b), 25 of the 64 genera have been specificity in a tropical forest, where plant described since then. Also, there have been diversity might make host finding difficult, many subsequent species described, many in and found 71% of Enchophora longirostris the wrong genus, and there are few keys to Distant (= sanguinea Distant) on Simarouba species. Consequently, even though they are amara Aubl. (Sapindales) and 84% of Phric- large and beautiful insects, it is very difficult tus quinquepartitus Distant on Terminalia to identify most species. The purpose of this oblonga Steud. (Combretaceae). Adults have paper is to provide a guide for identification been reported to aggregate on tree trunks in with emphasis on the use of external charac- ranks and to move in conjunction with each ters. other (Johnson and Foster 1986, O'Brien and data will be given Very little is known about the biology of Wilson, 1985). Further host Fulgoridae. Two species have been reported in parts to be published later. to be of economic importance (Wilson and Little information on life histories is avail- O'Brien 1987), Phrictus diadema (L.) on cocoa able. Kershaw and Kirkaldy (1910) noted that trees {Theobroma cacao L.) in Brazil (Silva the eggs o{ Pyrops candelaria were laid in flat 1945) and Pyrops candelaria (L.) on longan clumps on tree trunks and covered with wax and mango (Kershaw and Kirkaldy 1910). from the female abdominal segments; nymphs Host records for species contained in this pa- dispersed and fed on branches; and adults fed per include Amycle pinyonae Knull & Knull on tree trunks. Hingston (1932) reported rear- on pinyon pine, Pinus monophylla Voss (Knull ing fulgorid nymphs from what he described of and Knull 1947), Fulgora laternaria (L.) on as a mantidlike egg case. Other descriptions Hymenaea courbaril L. or quapinol (Janzen immatures are those of Fulgora phosphorea Pris- 1983), Enchophora pallidipunctata Lalle- L. (= laternaria L.) (Hagmann 1928); mand on Copaifera dourajeauni (Legumi- tiopsis serratus (F.) (= Cathedra serrata [¥.]) nosae) (label data, species not found in botani- (da Fonseca 1931), and Itzalana subnuiculata As far as cal references), and Rhabdocephala brunnea Schmidt (Wilson and O'Brien 1986). 'Entomology, Florida A & M University. Tallahassee. Florida, USA. 135 136 Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs No. 12 is known, fulgorids feed in phloem tissue and date or relied on published descriptions. I are univoltine. No accounts of other typical have examined types of all but the following fulgoroid behaviors, such as accoustical com- species: Artacie dufourii (Signoret) (MZF?, munication and association with ants, have letter not answered); A. haeriioptera (Perty) been reported. (ZSBS, not found); Cathedra serrata (Fabri- Fulgoridae are subject to predation by fly- cius) (not listed by Zimsen 1964); Copidoced- catchers (D. Wechsler, personal communica- phala melanoptera Schmidt, Diareusa con- tion) and parasitization by the epipyropid spersa Schmidt, and Enchophora etninenta moths (Lepidoptera, Epipyropidae). The col- Schmidt (IZW); Enchophora ensifera (Ger- ors of the closed wings would appear to make mar) and E. tuba (Germar) (lost in Lvov, Rus- them inconspicuous against tree trunks, but sia); E. nigrolimbata Lallemand and Enhydria they can be found fairly easily by the human rufula Lallemand (FSAG, sent but not yet eye if observed in profile. I assume that the arrived); Olivier s species, £. recurva, E. tu- red, orange, yellow, and white coloration so berculata, and F. caerulescens, and the types common at the base of the hind wings is simi- of Fulgora, which were studied by Ridout. lar in function to that of the underwing moths Olivier's (1791) species were redescriptions (Noctuidae), in which the color has been with Latin binomials of Stoll's (1781, 1788) shown to startle birds seeking prey. Eye spots descriptions and figures in French and Dutch on the hind wings of Cathedra and Fulgora or Flemish, using names in those languages. would seem to serve a startle or warning func- Olivier's species are not in the Paris Museum tion as well. But for all the speculation on the (MHNP), nor in his personal collection de- bizarre shapes of the head processes, no one posited there, which is all Coleoptera (Bour- has reported the response of predators to the goin, personal communication). Olivier cites "alligator head" of the peanut bug, nor to any "Du cabinet de M. Holthuisen" in some spe- other species. cies; Horn and Kahle (1935) say of Holthuisen One common name for the family Fulgori- collection "in Hamburg am 3. II. 1796 u. dae, "lantern-flies," was given because Ful- 16. V. 1797 sowie in Stralsund 1800 verauk- gora were reported to emit light (de Merian tionert." If any specimens went to the Ham- 1771), but recent inquiries and enzyme stud- burg Museum (ZMUH), they were destroyed ies have failed to substantiate this phe- by bombing in World War II, except for a few nomenon (Ridout 1983). Many Amerindians specimens out on loan. I have not been able to feared Fulgora, reporting that they flew a zig- trace Olivier's or Stoll's specimens further. zag path through the forest, killing everything The first three of the species listed here were they touched (Branner 1885). Shamans car- well illustrated when described; Schmidt's ried one in their amulet bags. The modern descriptions clearly fit the specimens I have; version of this myth, probably invented and only Lallemands, Germar's, and Olivier's surely repeated in coed entomology classes far species are in doubt. out in the bush, is that if a human is bitten by a Fulgoridae may be distinguished from Fulgora, death is certain unless one is saved other Fulgoroidea by the presence of numer- by the antidote, mating within 24 hours; non- ous cross-veins in the hind wings, a feature sense, of course. lacking in all other families. Stal also noted Lallemand (1959, 1963) revised the 20 gen- that the carina between the frons and gena era and 102 species of Fulgoridae from Africa continues onto the clypeus, but this feature and the 28 genera and 178 species of Asia and also occurs in some Derbidae, Dictyophari- Australia. The New World has a much richer dae, and Lophopidae. Fulgoridae share with fauna, composed of 64 genera and 250 species the Dictyopharidae similar bilaterally sym- as I begin this monograph. The only revisions metrical, usually trilobed, inflatable male of New World genera in which authors ex- genitalia. Emelyanov (1979) transferred some amined types are Cyrpoptus (Kramer 1978) Asian genera from Dictyopharidae to Ful- and Fulgora (Ridout, personal communica- goridae, citing other characters, but these tion). Other generic reviews are those on Ful- characters are not diagnostic for New World