A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) Author Zahniser, James N. C44D6E44-FA1C-4B29-B7BB-FAF5940CD225 Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 S. Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820, United States of America & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: C 44 D 6 E 44 - FA 1 C- 4 B 29 - B 7 BB-FAF 5940 CD 225 & corresponding author e-mail: zahniser @ illinois. edu Author Dietrich, Chris H. 82FCB86C-54B4-456A-AE5E-D7847D271CB9 Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 S. Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820, United States of America & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 82 FCB 86 C- 54 B 4 - 456 A-AE 5 E-D 7847 D 271 CB 9 text European Journal of Taxonomy 2013 2013-05-29 45 1 211 journal article 22221 http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.45 a66592b8-63a8-4c2d-9471-e58ddb2c0559 2118-9773 3822710 41B10E4D-7DAB-40CA-A8FE-4ECA078E04A3 Chiasmini Distant, 1908 Fig. 14 Type genus: Chiasmus Mulsant & Rey, 1855 . = Doraturini Emeljanov, 1962 . = Listrophorini Boulard, 1971 syn. nov. = Paraphrodini Linnavuori, 1979 . Diagnosis Chiasmini are small to medium sized leafhoppers, usually white, stramineous, green, brown, grey, or black in coloration, and sometimes iridescent. They can be identified by the tapering or parallelsided clypellus, aedeagus hinged at the base (hinge usually but not always present), ovipositor usually extending far beyond the pygofer, first valvula dorsal sculpturing pattern maculose to granulose and usually submarginal, first valvula without distinctly delimited ventroapical sculpturing, and second valvula teeth obliquely triangular and serrated. Description HEAD. Head subequal to or wider than pronotum. Discal portion of crown glabrous with radial or longitudinal striae or shagreen. Anterior margin of head shagreen, glabrous, irregularly textured, or foliaceous. Frontoclypeus not tumid; texture shagreen or glabrous. Clypellus parallel-sided or tapering apically; apex following or slightly surpassing normal curve of gena. Lorum wider than, subequal to, or distinctly narrower than clypellus near base. Antennal bases near middle or posteroventral (lower) corners of eyes. Antennae short, less than 1.5 x width of head. Gena obtusely incised or strongly incised (nearly forming right angle) laterally; with or without ( Baileyus , Gurawa , Listrophora , some Chiasmus ) fine erect seta beside laterofrontal suture.Antennal ledge absent or weakly developed (carinate or weakly carinate). Ocelli absent, reduced, or present; close to or distant from eyes; on anterior margin of head or on crown ( Chiasmus ). THORAX. Pronotum lateral margin carinate or not carinate; lateral margin shorter than basal width of eye. WINGS. Forewing brachypterous to macropterous; if macropterous then appendix large and extending around wing apex; with 3 anteapical cells or with 2 anteapical cells; veins not raised or veins distinctly raised or carinate ( Baileyus , Gurawa , Paraphrodes ); without reflexed costal veins; A1-A2 crossvein absent. LEGS. Profemur with AM 1 seta only or rarely with an additional proximal seta ( Doraturopsis Lindberg , Protochiasmus Zahniser ); intercalary row with one row of five or more fine setae or intercalary row reduced or absent; row AV with short, stout setae or with relatively long macrosetae. Protibia dorsal Fig. 14. Chiasmini . Chiasmus sp. (see note under Chiasmini on identification of species of Chiasmus ). A–I . Standard views (see Material & Methods). surface rounded, convex. Metafemur apex macrosetae 2+1, 2+2, 2+1+1, or 2+2+1. Metatarsomere I not expanded apically or expanded apically; plantar setae simple, tapered. MALE GENITALIA. Valve articulated with pygofer; lateral margin short, articulating with pygofer at a point. Pygofer basolateral membranous cleft present or absent, not membranous; macrosetae absent, reduced (≤ two rows) or well differentiated into several rows. Subgenital plates free from each other; articulated with valve; macrosetae absent or present, scattered, irregularly arranged, or uniseriate laterally. Style broadly bilobed basally, median anterior lobe pronounced. Basal processes of the aedeagus/connective absent or reduced. Aedeagus often with or sometimes without ( Baileyus , Leofa , Gurawa , Paraphrodes ) basal hinge; with a single shaft and gonopore. Connective anterior arms somewhat divergent, Y - or U -shaped, or anterior arms closely appressed anteriorly; articulated with aedeagus. FEMALE GENITALIA. Pygofer with macrosetae reduced or absent or with numerous macrosetae. Ovipositor usually protruding far beyond pygofer apex (not protruding in Baileyus , Gurawa , Omaranus , Paraphrodes ). First valvula not strongly convex; dorsal sculpturing pattern granulose or maculose; sculpturing submarginal; without distinctly delimited ventroapical sculpturing. Second valvula abruptly broadened medially or subapically; without dorsal median tooth; dorsal teeth present on apical 1/3 or more; teeth obtusely triangular and serrated. Geography and ecology Distribution: cosmopolitan. Nearly all species are grass or sedge feeders, and they are typical members of the grassland faunas of the world. Driotura spp. have been collected from Asteraceae . Nephotettix virescens ( Distant, 1908 ) and some other Nephotettix spp. are agricultural pests and transmit tungro virus of rice in southeast Asia, and can cause severe economic loss. Remarks Chiasmini contains 21 genera and 317 species. The tribe appears to be most closely related to Stenometopiini ( Zahniser 2008a ; Zahniser & Dietrich 2010 ) with which it shares some similarities of the ovipositor and male pygofer. Phylogenetic analyses sometimes resolve it as sister to Stenometopiini, and also suggest that the two tribes are related to Eupelicini, Drakensbergenini, and Evinus . In the phylogenetic analyses here, the tribe was resolved as monophyletic in ML and Bayesian analyses, but in parsimony analyses it was monophyletic with the exception of Protochiasmus , which was resolved, sister to Evinus but with little or no branch support. The placement of Gurawa in Chiasmini is supported by these analyses and the morphologically similar Baielyus and Paraphrodes ( Zahniser 2008a , 2011 ) are also included. For the first time, molecular data for Listrophora were included in phylogenetic analyses and the genus was found with very strong branch support to be related to Chiasmini . The morphological characters of the male and female genitalia of Listrophora (aedeagus hinged, first valvula dorsal sculpturing pattern granulose and submarginal, second valvula with distinct serrated oblong and triangular teeth) match those of other Chiasmini , despite the bizarre and unique diamond-shaped process of the head, which led Boulard (1971) to place it in a separate tribe. In our analyses it was found to be closely related to Gurawa within Chiasmini , with which it shares the raised or carinate veins of the forewing. Listrophorina was previously included as a subtribe of Eupelicini ( Zahniser & Dietrich 2010 ) but is synonymized here with Chiasmini . Nephoris is transferred to the tribe based on the figures published by Jacobi (1912) . N. chalybaea Jacobi, 1912 appears similar to Leofa thompsoni Zahniser, 2008 which was also described from central Africa. Attempts to locate the type were unsuccessful, but for now it is considered a valid genus pending further study. Selected references Vilbaste (1965) , Ross (1968) , Boulard (1971) , Blocker (1983) , Blocker & Johnson (1988a , b, 1990a, b, c), Emeljanov (1999) , Dmitriev (2003) , Zahniser & Hicks (2007) , Zahniser (2008a , b, 2011), Duan et al. (2009) , Duan & Zhang (2012a , b, c). Notes on illustration ( Fig. 14 ) The specimens figured are identified as Chiasmus sp. from W. Cape Province , South Africa . The species identity of Chiasmus specimens is difficult to determine given the variability in some described species and because of the relatively uniform male genitalia among species. C. varicolor (Kirkaldy, 1906) is known from Australia and South Africa , C. undulatus Theron, 1982 is also known from South Africa , and C. katonae (Melichar, 1908) is known from Tanzania . The species figured is similar to C. katonae but differs in size, surface shape of the crown, and coloration. The genus should be revised and species concepts reevaluated to improve the taxonomy and allow for easier identification. Included genera Aconura Lethierry, 1876 Aconurella Ribaut, 1948 Athysanella Baker, 1898 Baileyus Singh-Pruthi, 1930 Chiasmus Mulsant & Rey, 1855 Doratura Sahlberg, 1871 Doraturopsis Lindberg, 1935 Driotura Osborn & Ball, 1898 Exitianus Ball, 1929 Gurawa Distant, 1908 Icaia Linnavuori, 1973 Leofa Distant, 1918 Listrophora Boulard, 1971 placement nov. (previously placed in Eupelicini: Listrophorina) Nephoris Jacobi, 1912 placement nov. (transferred from Athysanini ) Nephotettix Matsumura, 1902 Omaranus Distant, 1918 Paraphrodes Linnavuori, 1979 Picchusteles Linnavuori & DeLong, 1976 Protochiasmus Zahniser, 2010 Stenogiffardia Evans, 1977 Zahniserius Duan & Zhang, 2012