Fieber’s original drawings and their corresponding types for the family Issidae (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle of Paris, France
Author
Gnezdilov, Vladimir M.
Author
Soulier-Perkins, Adeline
Author
Bourgoin, Thierry
text
Zootaxa
2011
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.202303
4bc728cf-9e76-417c-8a97-940bf1528990
1175-5326
202303
Issus frontalis
Fieber, 1876
Issus frontalis
Fieber, 1876
: 264
, [separata 1876: 254]
Issus novaki
Dlabola 1959
: 152
,
syn. n.
Issus truncatus sensu
Holzinger, Kammerlander & Nickel 2003
: 451
, fig. 247. (Fig. 2)
Type
material examined. 3,
lectotype
(here designated) (
MNHN
(EH)7476), with hand-written label: “Görz” (NLC); 3,
paralectotype
(
MNHN
(EH)7477), with Noualhier’s hand-written label: “
Type
Fieber” (NLC).
Note. Fieber mentioned
Italy
, Southern
France
, and Tyrol as
type
localities for the species. According to Fieber’s manuscript he studied at least a male and a female. Two males from NLC correspond to Fieber’s drawings (male genitalia are figured). The male from Görz (
Austria
, Tyrol) is here designated as the
lectotype
and another male without geographical label is here recognised as a
paralectotype
. Apparently the last male was figured by Fieber, because it has genitalic complex exposed and accordingly this male is from
Croatia
as written on the drawing. We prefer to designate the specimen from Görz as the
lectotype
because Tyrol was mentioned as one of the
type
localities while
Croatia
was not. In NLC and PC there are also females in a row “
Issus frontalis
”, but their taxonomic position is unclear, because identification is only possible for males. These may be the female specimens mentioned by
Fieber (1876)
in his original description of the species and, if so, are
paralectotypes
.
The synonymy of
I. frontalis
and
I. muscaeformis
proposed by
Löw (1883)
and supported by
Holzinger, Kammerlander & Nickel (2003)
is incorrect.