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 62345736-dcf6-4c38-a870-36a90992dabb 5174008 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 .