Hemiptera Heteroptera of Guam
Author
Usinger, Robert L.
text
1946
1946-12-20
Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin 189
Honolulu, Hawaii
Insects of Guam II
11
103
book chapter
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10.
Parealda chrysoptera
(Herrich-Schaeffer
).
Asopus chrysopterus
Herrich-Schaeffer
,
Wanz. Insekt
.
7
:
114
a, 115, fig. 781,
1844
.
Cantheconidea chrysoptera
Schouteden
,
Gen. Insect.
52
:
44
,
1907
.
Parealda bouvieri
Schouteden
,
Soc. ent. Belg., Ann.
51
:
47
,
1907
. New synonymy.
Parealda bouvieri
Schouteden
,
Gen. Insect.
52
:
65
, pl. 5,
fig. 3
,
1907
.
Asopus
?
chrysopterus
Bergroth
,
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.
VIII,
15
:
484
,
1915
.
Two specimens
,
Guam
,
Fullaway
(1418);
TODO
one specimen
,
Guam
, 1923, edge of forest, Hornbostel
;
one specimen
,
Mt. Alifan
,
April 21
,
E. H. Bryan
, Jr
.;
one specimen
,
Inarajan
,
July 25
, on
Triphasia
,
Swezey
.
This species was originally described from
Guam
by Herrich-Schaeffer and is easily recognizable from his colored illustration. As pointed out by Bergroth, Schouteden erroneously placed this in
Cantheconidea
.
Bergroth, in suggesting that
chrysopterus
"belongs to an undescribed genus," overlooked the fact that Schouteden had already described a new genus and species,
Parealda bouvieri
,
for this same insect and keyed it out in its proper place in his Genera Insectorum. Thus the specific name of Herrich-Schaeffer and the generic name of Schouteden stand, while Schouteden's specific name
bouvieri
falls as a synonym.