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Isometopus Fieber 1860

Description

Genus Isometopus Fieber, 1860

Cephalocoris Stein, 1860: 79 (junior homonym of Cephalocoris Heer, 1853, fossil Heteroptera; synonymized by Baerensprung, 1860: 12). Type species: Acanthia intrusa Herrich-Schaeffer, 1835.

Isometopus Fieber, 1860: 359. Type species by subsequent designation (Distant, 1904: 484): Acanthia intrusa Herrich- Schaeffer, 1835.

Turnebus Distant, 1904: 485 (synonymized by Mcatee and Malloch, 1924: 76).

Skapana Distant, 1910: 315 (synonymized by McAtee and Malloch, 1932: 67).

Jehania Distant, 1911: 293 (synonymized by Carvalho, 1951: 391).

Magnocellus Smith, 1967: 27 (synonymized by Akingbohungbe, 1996: 38).

Diagnosis. Recognized by body generally oval with densely golden pubescences and with distinct punctures on the whole body dorsally; head flattened (Figs. 1 A–C); ocelli present on vertex; width of compound eye approximately as wide as vertex; antennae originated at ventral margin of head (Figs. 1 D–G); antennae cylindrical in form; second antennal segment longest; hemelytra with one cell; tarsi with two segments (Fig. 1 J).

Notes

Published as part of Kim, Junggon & Jung, Sunghoon, 2016, Taxonomic review of the genus Isometopus (Hemiptera: Miridae: Isometopinae) from the Korean Peninsula, with description of a new species, pp. 137-145 in Zootaxa 4137 (1) on page 138, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/256917

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Biodiversity

Family
Miridae
Genus
Isometopus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Fieber
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Isometopus Fieber, 1860 sec. Kim & Jung, 2016

References

  • Fieber, F. X. (1860) Exegesen in Hemipteren. Wiener entomologische Monatschrift, 4, 257 - 272.
  • Stein, J. P. E. F. (1860) Ueber Acanthia intrusa Herr. - Schffr. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 4, 79 - 80. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 18600040108
  • Distant, W. L. (1904) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Vol. II. Taylor & Francis, London, 243 - 503 pp.
  • Distant, W. L. (1910) Rhynchota Malayana, Part III. Records of the Indian Museum, 5, 313 - 338. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 10506
  • Distant, W. L. (1911) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota Vol. V. Heteroptera: Appendix. Taylor & Francis, London, xii, 362 pp
  • Smith, M. R. (1967) A new genus and twelve new species of Isometopini (Hemiptera: Isometopidae) from Ghana. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Nigeria, 1, 27 - 42.