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<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794BABFE74FEF5BEDE" bold="true" box="[151,296,397,422]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">Akemetopon</emphasis>
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species:
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794A1AFE29FDCFBE9E" box="[294,530,464,486]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">Akemetopon inornatum</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794BABFDF4FEF4BD5E" bold="true" box="[151,297,525,550]" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">Description.</emphasis>
Color dark testaceus, legs and usually head paler; often with pale band on trailing margin of brachypterous forewings. Head narrower than pronotum. Vertex as wide as long, or slightly wider; carinae distinct, median carina weaker; sublateral carinae meeting at fastigium. In lateral view, head pointed (
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794F9BFDACFAE7BD15" box="[1191,1338,597,621]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">A. inornatum</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794E74FDACFF1CBDE9" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">A. politum</emphasis>
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) or rounded (
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794A5FFD80FE3DBDE9" box="[355,480,633,657]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">A. ainigma</emphasis>
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). Frons with lateral margins slightly bowed laterad, widest near base of compound eyes; median carina distinct (
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794ADCFD64FDA9BDCD" box="[480,628,669,693]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">A. inornatum</emphasis>
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) or weak (
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB42771687949CCFD64FCB8BDCD" box="[752,869,669,693]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">A. politum</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB427716879484FFD64FC32BDCD" box="[883,1007,669,693]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">A. ainigma</emphasis>
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), forked at fastigium. Antennae short, terete, first antennal segment wider than long, second over twice length of first. Pronotal carinae obscure, reaching (
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794B9CFD1CFEC9BD85" box="[160,276,741,765]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">A. politum</emphasis>
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) or not reaching (
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794AE3FD1CFDAFBD85" box="[479,626,741,765]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">A. inornatum</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB42771687949BDFD1CFD4FBD85" box="[641,658,741,765]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">A</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="88CBEAB427716879499CFD1FFD21BD85" box="[672,764,742,765]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">ainigma</emphasis>
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) posterior margin. Mesonotal carinae weak or obsolete.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="BA0036A6277168794BF9FCF0FDBEBB39" blockId="2.[151,1437,525,1917]" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">Male pygofer broad in lateral view, longer ventrally than dorsally; in caudal view opening round, about as tall as wide; margins rounded (not keeled), ventral margin of opening with caudally projected tooth. Diaphragm welldeveloped, dorsal margin weakly concave leaving large oval-elliptic opening between diaphragm and segment 10; armature U-shaped, with aedeagus resting between thickened, deeply sclerotized ridges. Aedeagus curved ventrad, roughly parallel sided, narrowing in apical fourth to acute apex; with lateral serrations in rows; gonopore subapical and dorsal. Suspensorium evident, base between aedeagus and segment 10 short; arms enclosing aedeagus. Parameres flattened, forceps-like; basal angle weak, widest in apical half, distally narrowing to dorsomedially directed avicephaliform apices. Segment 10 short and wide, bearing small, short hooked processes on caudal margin; segment 11 shorter than segment 10.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794BF9FBB4FEE4BB1D" bold="true" box="[197,313,1101,1125]" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">Remarks.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794A7CFBB4FE16BB1D" box="[320,459,1101,1125]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">Akemetopon</emphasis>
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is an unusual genus. The sharp fastigium of
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB42771687948F8FBB4FB85BB1D" box="[964,1112,1101,1125]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">A. inornatum</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794FB3FBB4FADEBB1D" box="[1167,1283,1101,1125]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">A. politum</emphasis>
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is unlike any other North American delphacine planthopper, and the bowed lateral margins of the frons is unusual among North American
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. Despite substantive differences in the head, the genitalia are remarkably similar among species. Superficially it most resembles
<emphasis id="88CBEAB427716879497EFB43FD1FBBA9" box="[578,706,1210,1233]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">
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,
</emphasis>
but
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB42771687949C6FB43FCA9BBA9" box="[762,884,1210,1233]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">Pissonotus</emphasis>
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has a rounded fastigium, a pair of median processes on the ventral margin of the pygofer, and the median carina of the frons is forked below the fastigium (
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). The midventral projection of the pygofer opening is an unusual feature among North American
<taxonomicName id="7DBF4D25277168794A30FADCFE56BA45" box="[268,395,1317,1341]" class="Insecta" family="Delphacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="tribe" tribe="Delphacini">Delphacini</taxonomicName>
. It is shared by
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794900FADCFD34BA45" box="[572,745,1317,1341]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">Kosswigianella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis id="88CBEAB42771687949C6FADFFCE5BA45" box="[762,824,1318,1341]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">sensu</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="DE2E4B57277168794803FADCFC31BA45" author="Hamilton" box="[831,1004,1317,1341]" pageId="2" pageNumber="52" refString="Hamilton, K. G. A. (2002) Homoptera (Insecta) in Pacific Northwest grasslands. Part 1 - New and revised taxa of leafhoppers and planthoppers (Cicadellidae and Delphacidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia, 99, 3 - 31." type="journal article" year="2002">Hamilton 2002</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="DE2E4B572771687948CBFADCFAFDBA45" author="Hamilton" box="[1015,1312,1317,1341]" pageId="2" pageNumber="52" refString="Hamilton, K. G. A &amp; Kwon, Y. J. (2010) Chapter 19: Taxonomic supplement to &quot; short-horned &quot; bugs (Homoptera) of the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone. In: D. MacAlpine, (ed.), Assessment of Species Diversity in the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone. NRC Research Press Biodiversity Monograph Series, Ottawa, ON, Canada. pp. 421 - 431." type="book chapter" year="2010">Hamilton and Kwon 2010</bibRefCitation>
;
<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794E10FADFFA96BA45" box="[1324,1355,1318,1341]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">viz</emphasis>
.
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<taxonomicName id="7DBF4D25277168794E65FADCFEC9BA19" class="Insecta" family="Delphacidae" genus="Acanthodelphax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Acanthodelphax</taxonomicName>
-
</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="7DBF4D25277168794A15FAB3FDCEBA19" authority="(Crawford)" authorityName="Crawford" baseAuthorityName="Crawford" box="[297,531,1353,1377]" class="Insecta" family="Delphacidae" genus="Kosswigianella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="analis">
<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794A15FAB3FE53BA19" box="[297,398,1353,1377]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">K. analis</emphasis>
(Crawford)
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and
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794974FAB3FD86BA19" box="[584,603,1354,1377]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">K</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794954FAB0FD11BA19" box="[616,716,1353,1377]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">wasatchi</emphasis>
Hamilton
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; but not
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB42771687948A2FAB3FBFFBA19" box="[926,1058,1353,1377]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">K. lutulenta</emphasis>
(Van Duzee))
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, which differs from
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794BABFA94FEFFBAFD" box="[151,290,1389,1413]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">Akemetopon</emphasis>
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in color (stramineous brown with darker abdomen in males), range (northern plus Appalachians), shape of the parameres (diverging), aedeagus (lacking rows of teeth or bearing pair of large terminal processes) and genital diaphragm form. A midventral pygofer projection is also shared with
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794F37FA4CFB5DBAB5" box="[1035,1152,1461,1485]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">Achorotile</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which has similar color but bears sensory pits on the adult and the median carina on the face is paired. Some members of the genera
<taxonomicName id="7DBF4D25277168794E6FFA23FEFAB96D" authority="Fieber" authorityName="Fieber" class="Insecta" family="Delphacidae" genus="Megamelus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794E6FFA23FF05B96D" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">Megamelus</emphasis>
Fieber
</taxonomicName>
(see
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) and
<taxonomicName id="7DBF4D25277168794904FA04FCCBB96D" authority="Crawford" authorityName="Crawford" box="[568,790,1533,1557]" class="Insecta" family="Delphacidae" genus="Bakerella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794904FA04FD79B96D" box="[568,676,1533,1557]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">Bakerella</emphasis>
Crawford
</taxonomicName>
(see
<bibRefCitation id="DE2E4B5727716879486DFA07FC37B96D" author="Beamer" box="[849,1002,1533,1557]" pageId="2" pageNumber="52" refString="Beamer, R. H. (1945) Four new species in the genus Bakerella (Homoptera: Fulgoridae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 18, 149 - 154." type="journal article" year="1945">Beamer 1945</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="DE2E4B572771687948C9FA04FBF3B96D" author="Beamer" box="[1013,1070,1533,1557]" pageId="2" pageNumber="52" refString="Beamer, R. H. (1950) The genus Bakerella in America North of Mexico (Homoptera: Fulgoridae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 23, 102 - 109." type="journal article" year="1950">1950</bibRefCitation>
) have a midventral processes on some species, but these genera are quite unlike
<emphasis id="88CBEAB427716879498DF9D8FC9EB941" box="[689,835,1569,1593]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">
<taxonomicName id="7DBF4D2527716879498DF9D8FCE2B941" box="[689,831,1569,1593]" class="Insecta" family="Delphacidae" genus="Akemetopon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Akemetopon</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
A midventral process is also seen in the tropical Old World genus
<taxonomicName id="7DBF4D25277168794A0EF9BCFD97B925" authority="Zimmerman" authorityName="Zimmerman" box="[306,586,1605,1629]" class="Insecta" family="Delphacidae" genus="Tarophagus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794A0EF9BCFE6BB925" box="[306,438,1605,1629]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">Tarophagus</emphasis>
Zimmerman
</taxonomicName>
(see
<bibRefCitation id="DE2E4B572771687949B1F9BCFC7BB925" author="Asche" box="[653,934,1605,1629]" pageId="2" pageNumber="52" refString="Asche, M. &amp; Wilson, M. R. (1989) The Three Taro Planthoppers: species recognition in Tarophagus (Hemiptera: Delphacidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 79, 285 - 298." type="journal article" year="1989">Asche and Wilson 1989</bibRefCitation>
), but except for this and color,
<taxonomicName id="7DBF4D25277168794E24F9BCFA41B925" box="[1304,1436,1605,1629]" class="Insecta" family="Delphacidae" genus="Tarophagus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794E24F9BCFA41B925" box="[1304,1436,1605,1629]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">Tarophagus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
bears few similarities to
<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794A96F990FDE1B9F9" box="[426,572,1641,1665]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">
<taxonomicName id="7DBF4D25277168794A96F990FDE5B9F9" box="[426,568,1641,1665]" class="Insecta" family="Delphacidae" genus="Akemetopon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Akemetopon</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="BA0036A6277168794BF9F974FD63B995" blockId="2.[151,1437,525,1917]" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">
All observed specimens are brachypterous. The only long series was of
<taxonomicName id="7DBF4D252771687948D1F974FB08B9DD" box="[1005,1237,1677,1701]" class="Insecta" family="Delphacidae" genus="Akemetopon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="politum">
<emphasis id="88CBEAB42771687948D1F974FB08B9DD" box="[1005,1237,1677,1701]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">Akemetopon politum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
collected by vacuum sampling the grass
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<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794A91F948FD97B9B1" box="[429,586,1713,1737]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">Muhlenbergia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; the remaining specimens were singletons, or few in number, collected by sweeping or without collecting method provided.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="F2A5652D277168794BF9F903FEDBB805" pageId="2" pageNumber="52" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="BA0036A6277168794BF9F903FEDBB805" blockId="2.[151,1437,525,1917]" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">
<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794BF9F903FE91B86A" bold="true" box="[197,332,1786,1810]" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">Etymology.</emphasis>
The genus name,
<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794921F900FD72B869" box="[541,687,1785,1809]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">
<taxonomicName id="7DBF4D25277168794921F900FD76B869" box="[541,683,1785,1809]" class="Insecta" family="Delphacidae" genus="Akemetopon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Akemetopon</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
is formed by combining a truncation of the feminine Greek word
<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794BABF8E4FF02B84D" box="[151,223,1821,1845]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">akoke,</emphasis>
meaning “a point, sharp edge”, and
<emphasis id="88CBEAB4277168794941F8E7FD00B84D" box="[637,733,1822,1845]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">metopon</emphasis>
, the Greek noun for forehead, in reference to the angled fastigium of the
<typeStatus id="65048804277168794A1EF8BBFE8FB822" box="[290,338,1858,1882]" pageId="2" pageNumber="52">type</typeStatus>
species (remarked on independently by several workers on specimen labels). The name is neuter in gender.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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