Homoptera, Fulgoroidea and Jassoidea of Guam
Author
Metcalf, Z. P.
College of Agriculture and Engineering, University of North Carolins
text
1946
1946-12-20
Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189
Honolulu, Hawaii
Insects of Guam II
105
148
book chapter
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5174008
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Genus
BYTHOSCOPUS
Germar
Bythoscopus
Germar
, Rev. Ent. Silbermann
1:
180, 1833. Logotype,
Cicada lanio
Lin'naeus
.
The genus may be characterized briefly as follows: Head usually nearly as broad as the pronotum; crown short and broad; face short and broad with the ocelli well below the level of the dorsal margin. Pronotum short and broad; the anterior margin not projecting in front of the anterior margin of the compound eyes. Mesonotum short, broadly triangular. Tegmina translucent; venation indistinct.
This is a genus of about 90 species of world-wide distribution. Osborn (21) described four new species from
Samoa
and listed a fifth species, previously recorded from
Ceylon
, for this region. Only one other species has been recorded from Pacific islands, and no species have heretofore been recorded frbm
Micronesia
.