Published March 14, 2017 | Version v1
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Gergithus Stal 1870

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education and Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China. & Email: mengrui @ nwsuaf. edu. cn & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: AB 10 C 4 C 0 - C 7 EE- 42 CF-BEC 3 - 3022 BCBA 0 B 6 D
  • 2. The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, Kensington, London SW 7 5 BD, London, UK. & Email: m. webb @ nhm. ac. uk & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: FAAE 82 E 2 - 3 C 2 A- 4900 - 84 FE- 55 CEAD 630384
  • 3. Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education and Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China. & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: D 9647615 - E 0 BA- 4556 - 87 D 6 - 7 C 49 E 651551 C & Corresponding autor: yinglunw @ nwsuaf. edu. cn

Description

Gergithus sp.

Fig. 5 A–C

G. signatifrons Melichar, 1906 sensu Baker 1927: 403.

A specimen previously identified as G. signatifrons by Baker (1927) from Siberut Island was examined (BMNH). It differs from the type specimen of G. signatifrons by 1) frons with wide blood-red longitudinal fascia medially and green fasciae laterally from upper margin to the line of antennae, lateral green fasciae curved inwards and connected by yellow transverse band, between it and clypeus also blood-red (the latter frons with red longitudinal fascia reaching metopoclypeal suture), lateral area pale yellowish, with black fascia near lateral margin below antennae; 2) clypeus blood-red medially, yellow laterally near metopoclypeal suture, and black-and-red below (the latter clypeus yellow medially and black laterally); 3) tegmen fulvous with straw yellow veins (the latter tegmen straw yellow).

All of the above characteristics show Baker’s identified specimen to be distinct from G. signatifrons and probably a new species. As the specimen is a female we prefer to wait for males to become available in order to formally describe the species.

Material examined

INDONESIA: ♂, Meita wei, Siberut Island, 2 Oct. 1924, H.H. Karny (BMNH).

Notes

Published as part of Meng, Rui, Webb, Michael Donald & Wang, Ying-Lun, 2017, Nomenclatural changes in the planthopper tribe Hemisphaeriini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Issidae), with the description of a new genus and a new species, pp. 1-25 in European Journal of Taxonomy 298 on page 10, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.298, http://zenodo.org/record/3825759

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Event date
1924-10-02
Family
Issidae
Genus
Gergithus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Stal
Taxon rank
genus
Verbatim event date
1924-10-02
Taxonomic concept label
Gergithus Stal, 1870 sec. Meng, Webb & Wang, 2017

References

  • Melichar D. L. 1906. Monographie der Issiden (Homoptera). Abhandlungen der kaiserlich koniglichen Zoologisch- botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 3: 1 - 327.
  • Baker C. F. 1927. Spolia Mentawiensia: Homoptera-Fulgoroidea. Philippine Journal of Science 32: 391 - 411.