Leptodictya | TingID

Taxonomy

Leptodictya Stål, 1873

Type species: Monanthia ochropa Stål

Diagnostic characters

Head short, clypeus not surpassing apical half of first antennal segment; cephalic spinescephalic spines:
a spine on the head
present; bucculaebucculae:
an elevated ridge on either side of the first labial segment
closed anteriorly; rostral sulcusrostral sulcus:
shallow furrow on either side of rostrum (labium)
uninterrupted by a transverse carinacarina:
elevated ridge or keel
; pronotumpronotum:
dorsal sclerite of the first thoracic segment
tricarinate, height of median carinacarina:
elevated ridge or keel
almost equal to that of lateral carinae; pronotal hoodhood:
term used to describe the modified anterior area of the pronotum, which is sometimes tectiform and sometimes bulbous, with numerous intermediate conditions.
bulbous, not extending beyond the apex of head, not compressed anteriorly in dorsal view; paranotumparanotum:
lateral extension of pronotum; may be carinate, explanate, or reflexed
expanded, narrow, with not more two rows of areolaeareolae:
a small enclosed space on a surface, such as an area enclosed by veinlets on wings
, reflexedreflexed:
bent or curved backwards, as in a reflexed paranotum
and appressed to pronotal disc, but not forming elevated cyst, row of spines along paranotal margin absent, anterior margin projecting anterad or not; paranotal basal foldsparanotal basal folds:
a structure at the base of paranotum next to the callus of pronotum
absent; hemelytrahemelytra:
one of the basally thickened forewings of Hemiptera
with claval areaclaval area:
parallel-sided and sharply pointed anal area of hemelytron
weakly developed, almost entirely covered by posterior margin of pronotumpronotum:
dorsal sclerite of the first thoracic segment
; discoidal areadiscoidal area:
area of the forewing posterior to the subcostal area
level, discoidal cell extending slightly beyond the middle of hemelytrahemelytra:
one of the basally thickened forewings of Hemiptera
(Hurd 1946Hurd 1946:
Hurd, M. E. P. 1946. Generic classification of North American Tingoidea (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). The Iowa State College Journal of Science 20: 429-493., Knudson 2018Knudson 2018:
Knudson, A. H. 2018. The Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of southern Central America (with an emphasis on Costa Rica). Master#39;s thesis. North Dakota University. https://library.ndsu.edu/ir/handle/10365/28773).

Distribution

Nearctic, Neotropical (Drake and Ruhoff 1960Drake and Ruhoff 1960:
Drake, C. J., and F. Ruhoff, A. 1960. Lace-bug genera of the world (Hemiptera: Tingidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 112., Drake and Ruhoff 1965Drake and Ruhoff 1965:
Drake, C. J., and F. A. Ruhoff. 1965. Lacebugs of the World: A Catalog (Hemiptera: Tingidae) Bulletin of the United States National Museum: 1ndash;634., Knudson 2018Knudson 2018:
Knudson, A. H. 2018. The Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of southern Central America (with an emphasis on Costa Rica). Master#39;s thesis. North Dakota University. https://library.ndsu.edu/ir/handle/10365/28773, Guilbert 2019Guilbert 2019:
Guilbert, E. 2019. Lace bugs database - http://www.hemiptera-databases.com/tingidae)

Interceptions at US ports of entry 1984 to 2018

Intercepted species	Shipment origin(s)	Inspected host(s)
Leptodictya bambusae Drake	Mexico	Calendula sp., Ocimum basilicum
Leptodictya plana Heidemann	Honduras, Mexico	Nephelium ramboutan-ake, Ocimum basilicum, Opuntia sp., Zea mays
Leptodictya sinaloana Drake	Mexico	Tillandsia sp., unknown plant in family Bromeliaceae
Leptodictya tabida (Herrich-Schaeffer)	Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico	Annona muricata, Codiaeum sp., Ocimum basilicum, Salvia sp., Sechium edule, Zea mays
Leptodictya sp.	El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico	Ananas comosus, Crowea sp., Fernaldia sp., Ocimum basilicum, Phoenix dactylifera

References

Drake and Ruhoff 1960Drake and Ruhoff 1960:
Drake, C. J., and F. Ruhoff, A. 1960. Lace-bug genera of the world (Hemiptera: Tingidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 112., Drake and Ruhoff 1965Drake and Ruhoff 1965:
Drake, C. J., and F. A. Ruhoff. 1965. Lacebugs of the World: A Catalog (Hemiptera: Tingidae) Bulletin of the United States National Museum: 1ndash;634., Knudson 2018Knudson 2018:
Knudson, A. H. 2018. The Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of southern Central America (with an emphasis on Costa Rica). Master#39;s thesis. North Dakota University. https://library.ndsu.edu/ir/handle/10365/28773, Guilbert 2019Guilbert 2019:
Guilbert, E. 2019. Lace bugs database - http://www.hemiptera-databases.com/tingidae

Additional images

Leptodictya images at the Smithsonian

Leptodictya bambusae, dorsal view; photo courtesy of USDA APHIS PPQ ITP imageID	Leptodictya bambusae, lateral view; photo courtesy of USDA APHIS PPQ ITP imageID
Leptodictya bambusae, dorsal view; photo courtesy of USDA APHIS PPQ ITP imageID	Leptodictya bambusae, ventral view; photo courtesy of USDA APHIS PPQ ITP imageID
Leptodictya bambusae, lateral view; photo courtesy of USDA APHIS PPQ ITP imageID	Leptodictya bambusae head and thorax, dorsal view; photo courtesy of USDA APHIS PPQ ITP imageID
Leptodictya bambusae head and thorax, lateral view; photo courtesy of USDA APHIS PPQ ITP imageID	Leptodictya bambusae, dorsal view; photo: Don Griffiths, Spencer Entomological Collection, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, UBC
Leptodictya plana, dorsal view; photo courtesy of USDA APHIS PPQ ITP imageID	Leptodictya plana, lateral view; photo courtesy of USDA APHIS PPQ ITP imageID
Leptodictya plana head and thorax, dorsal view; photo courtesy of USDA APHIS PPQ ITP imageID	Leptodictya plana head and pronotum, dorsal view; photo courtesy of USDA APHIS PPQ ITP imageID
Leptodictya plana head and thorax, ventral view; photo courtesy of USDA APHIS PPQ ITP imageID	Leptodictya plana, dorsal view; photo: Don Griffiths, Spencer Entomological Collection, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, UBC
Leptodictya plana, ventral view; photo: Don Griffiths, Spencer Entomological Collection, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, UBC	Leptodictya plana, lateral view; photo: Don Griffiths, Spencer Entomological Collection, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, UBC
Leptodictya sinaloana, dorsal view; photo courtesy of USDA APHIS PPQ ITP imageID	Leptodictya sinaloana, lateral view; photo courtesy of USDA APHIS PPQ ITP imageID
Leptodictya sinaloana head and thorax, lateral view; photo courtesy of USDA APHIS PPQ ITP imageID	Leptodictya sinaloana head and thorax, dorsal view; photo courtesy of USDA APHIS PPQ ITP imageID
Leptodictya tabida, dorsal view; photo: Paul Langlois, USDA APHIS PPQ ITP Node, bugwood.org	Leptodictya tabida, ventral view; photo: Paul Langlois, USDA APHIS PPQ ITP Node, bugwood.org
Leptodictya tabida, lateral view; photo: Paul Langlois, USDA APHIS PPQ ITP Node, bugwood.org	Leptodictya tabida, frontal view; photo: Paul Langlois, USDA APHIS PPQ ITP Node, bugwood.org
Leptodictya tabida head, laterofrontal view; photo: Paul Langlois, USDA APHIS PPQ ITP Node, bugwood.org	Leptodictya tabida, caudal view; photo: Paul Langlois, USDA APHIS PPQ ITP Node, bugwood.org