Metadelphax is a genus of delphacid planthoppers in the family Delphacidae. There are at least five described species in Metadelphax.Bartlett C, Webb M (2014). "The planthopper genus Spartidelphax, a new segregate of Nearctic Delphacodes (Hemiptera, Delphacidae)". ZooKeys 453: 19-36.
Species Metadelphax argentinensis (Muir, 1929) Metadelphax dentata (Gonzon and Bartlett, 2008) Metadelphax pero (Fennah, 1971) Metadelphax propinqua (Fieber, 1866) Metadelphax wetmorei (Muir & Giffard, 1924)
References
Ding, Jinhua (2006). "Homoptera Delphacidae". Fauna Sinica Insecta, vol. 45, xx + 776. Gonzon, Anthony T., and Charles R. Bartlett (2007). "Systematics of Hadropygos n.g., Metadelphax Wagner and New World Toya Distant (Hemiptera: Delphacidae)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society, vol. 133, no. 3+4, 205–277. Wagner, Wilhelm (1962). "Dynamische Taxionomie, angewandt auf die Delphaciden Mitteleuropas". Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, vol. 60, 111–180.
Further reading
Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
External links
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Metadelphax