Review of the effusus group of the Lanternfly genus Pyrops Spinola, 1839, with one new species and notes on trophobiosis (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae)
Author
Constant, Jérôme
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2015
2015-07-08
128
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journal article
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10.5852/ejt.2015.128
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Genus
Pyrops
Spinola, 1839
Pyrops
Spinola, 1839: 231
.
Type
species:
Pyrops candelaria
(Linnaeus, 1758)
by subsequent designation by
Duponchel (1840: 200)
.
Hotinus
Amyot & Serville, 1843: 490
[synonymized by
Blanchard 1845: 425
].
Type
species:
Pyrops candelaria
(Linnaeus, 1758)
by original designation.
Diagnostic characters
The characters defining the genus as given by
Lallemand (1963)
under
Fulgora
are here slightly modified, i.e., head with cephalic process, sometimes very long, narrowing progressively beyond the eyes; apically it can be dilated or even spherical. Vertex about 4 times as broad as an eye. Before eyes, genae truncate with a transverse carina which sometimes extends to vertex. Two longitudinal carinae on frons, a third median one starting on base of cephalic process. Fronto-clypeal suture usually slightly bisinuate; median carina on clypeus. Pronotum with median carina (sometimes obsolete) and a small but strongly impressed point on each side of it. Mesonotum with median and peridiscal carinae, sometimes obsolete. Tegmina at most 3 times as long as broad, with apical margin more or less rounded and with transverse veinlets on all surfaces. Clavus open and elongate, vein A1+A2 extending far towards apex. Legs slender.