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Provancherana
Provancherana mollicella (Fowler 1900)
Provancherana mollicella (Fowler): Female, dorsal view (a); sternite VII, ventral view (b); pygofer, lateral view (c); valvifer I, lateral view (d); valvifer II, lateral view (e); valvula I, lateral view (f), apical area (g); valvula II, lateral view (h); teeth (i); tooth (j); apical area (k). Measurements in milimetres (mm). Defea et al. (2017).
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Insects with no economic damage registered
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Chaco
- Córdoba
- Corrientes
- Misiones
- Salta
- Santa Fe
- Santiago del Estero
- Tucumán
- Argentina
- Entre Ríos
Other distribution
South America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana Francesa, Paraguay and Venezuela, Belize, Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama (Young 1977) and Nicaragua (Maes & Godoy 1993).
- Tettigonia mollicella Fowler 1900: 289 [n. sp.]
- Pagaronia mollicella (Fowler 1900) Osborn 1926 (b)
- Cicadella mollicella (Fowler, 1900) Ballou 1935 (a)
- Provancherana mollicella (Fowler 1900) Hamilton 1976 (a)
Natural enemies: Encarsia mollicellae Polaszek & Luft Albarracin, Gonatocerus abbreviatus, G. metanotalis, G. virlai (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) (Luft Albarracín et al. 2009), Lymaenon abbreviatus (Ogloblin) (Triapitsyn, Huber & Logarzo 2010).
Phytosanitary importance: Carrier of Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca, causal agent of the disease Citrus Variegated Chlorosis (CVC) in Argentina (Dellapé et al. 2016).
Phytosanitary importance: Carrier of Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca, causal agent of the disease Citrus Variegated Chlorosis (CVC) in Argentina (Dellapé et al. 2016).
Zea mays L., Triticum aestivum L., Avena sativa L. y malezas asociadas (Paradell 1995), Sorghum vulgare (Pers.) (de Remes Lenicov et al. 2006), Oriza sativa L. (Paradell et al. 2014), Brassica sp., Lycopersicon sp., Solanum sp.(Maes & Godoy 1993), Citrus sinensis Osb. y malezas asociadas (Remes Lenicov et al.1999), C. reticulata (Dellapé et al. 2016), Andropogon gayanus (Toledo et al.1989), malezas asociadas a Carica papaya L. (Lozada Robles & Arellano Cruz 2008) and Vaccinium corymbosum L. “arándano” (Defea et al. 2017).
- OSBORN H. 1926 (b). Neotropical Homoptera of the Carnegie Museum. Part 5. Report upon the collections in the subfamily Cicadellinae, with descriptions of new species. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 16, 155-248 + pls. 11–16.
- FOWLER. 1900 (a). Order Rhynchota. Suborder Hemiptera-Homoptera. (Continued). In Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Porter. London. 2, 257–264.
- CHRISTENSEN, J.R. 1942 (b) . Algunos cicadelidos de la Argentina y Bolivia. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 11, 336-339.
- HAMILTON, K.G.A. . 1976 (a). Cicadellidae (Rhynchota: Homoptera) described by Provancher, with notes on his publications. Le Naturaliste Canadien, 103, 29-45.
- YOUNG, D. A. 1977. Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Part 2. New World Cicadellini and the genus Cicadella. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, 239, 1-1135.
- TOLEDO ET AL. 1989. Andropogon gayanus Kunth. En: Un Pasto Para los Suelos Ácidos del Trópico (ed Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical), CIAT, Cali, Colombia, 406 pp.
- MAES, J.M & GODOY C. 1993. Catálogo de los Cicadellidae (Homoptera) de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaragüense de Entomología, 24, 5-34.
- PARADELL, S. 1995. Especies argentinas de homópteros Cicadelidos asociados al cultivo de maiz Zea mays L. Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía, La Plata, 71(2), 213-234.
- REMES LENICOV ET AL. 1999. Cicadelinos asociados a citrus afectados por la Clorosis Variegada (CVC) en la República Argentina (Insecta: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 58 (3-4), 211-225.
- PARADELL, S., VIRLA, E., TOLEADO, A. 2001. Leafhoppers species richness and abundance on corn crops in Argentina (Insecta-Hemiptera-Cicadellidae). Boletín de Sanidad Vegetal de Plagas, Madrid, España. 27 (4), 465-475.
- REMES LENICOV A.M.M.; PARADELL S. & CATALANO M. . 2006. Hemípteros auquenorrincos perjudiciales al cultivo de sorgo en la Argentina (Insecta-Hemiptera). Revista de Investigaciones Agropecuarias INTA, 35 (2), 3-20
- LOZADA ROBLES & ARELLANO CRUZ. 2008. Lista preliminar comentada de las "cigarritas" (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) de Chanchamayo y Satipo, Perú. Ecología Aplicada 7 (1-2), 117-122.
- PARADELL. 2014. Diversity of Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Delphacidae) associated with Vicia villosa in Southern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Florida Entomologist, 97 (2), 674-684.
- DELLAPÉ, G., PARADELL, S., DELFEDERICO, L. & SEMORILE L. . 2016. The potential vectors of Xylella fastidiosa from Argentina: a study of leafhoppers and treehoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) on citrus agroecosystems. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 161 (2), 92-103.
- DEFEA B., PARADELL S., REMES LENICOV A. M. M. DE. . 2017. The genus Plesiommata Provancher (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in Argentina. First detailed description of the female genitalia and comparisons with its Neotropical congeners. Austral Entomology, 55, 1-6.
