Kelisiinae Wagner, 1963

Wallner, Adam M. & Bartlett, Charles R., 2019, Comparative morphology of female gonapophyses IX in Delphacidae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha) with key to tribes, Zootaxa 4564 (1), pp. 137-172 : 155

Subfamily Kelisiinae Wagner

Tribe Kelisiini Wagner

Description. Gonapophyses IX strongly curvilinear, average length 636.40–1404.35 µm, width 34.88–46.04 µm; numerous, well-rounded teeth extending half of distal margin ( Fig. 15 ); apex porrect and blunt, dorsal margin overlapping ventral margin.

Notes. There is a single tribe in the subfamily, consisting of 52 species in two genera, with most species in Kelisia . Kelisiinae are exclusively Holarctic and closely related to Stenocraninae . Hamilton (2006) asserted that Kelisiinae should be a subtribe of Stenocraninae , but Urban et al. (2010) did not find sufficient evidence to support a sister-group relationship. Host associations are exclusively on graminoids, predominately on sedges ( Ossiannilsson 1978, Nickel 2003, Bartlett & Wheeler 2007, Bartlett 2014).

Figures

FIGURE 15. Lateral view of gonapophysis IX for Kelisiinae: Kelisiini: A) Anakelisia fasciata; B) Kelisia curvata; C) K. vesiculata.