A key to the genera of Issini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Issidae) of China and neighbouring countries, with descriptions of a new genus and two new species
Author
Rui Meng
Author
Yinglun Wang
Author
Daozheng Qin
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2016
181
1
25
journal article
51584
10.5852/ejt.2016.181
96267bab-f85d-409d-bb95-5065744fba53
2118-9773
269259
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BAA1A445-2005-421F-81C2-493851B1F689
Tapirissus
Gnezdilov, 2014
Tapirissus
Gnezdilov, 2014: 762
(type species:
Tapirissus guilberti
Gnezdilov, 2014
, by original designation).
Diagnosis
The genus can be recognized by the following characters: medium-sized; frons elongate and wholly visible from above, sublateral carinae absent, frons and vertex joined at obtuse angle; postclypeus large, in shape of flattened laterally proboscis bearing a median carina, resembling a chisel; tegmen with reticulate venation and without hypocostal plate; hind wing one-lobed; hind tibia distally with a single lateral spine.