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Acothrura Melichar 1915

  • 1. College of Life Sciences, China West Normal University, Nanchong, Sichuan 637009, China. & Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation (Ministry of Education), China West Normal University, Nanchong, Sichuan 637009, China.

Description

Genus Acothrura Melichar, 1915

Type species: Acothrura impunctata (Jacobi, 1905)

Key to species of Acothrura

1. Male anal tube in dorsal view with two protrusions on apical margin directing to outward (Liang 2000: fig. 24).......................................................................................... A. orientalis (Liang, 2000)

- Male anal tube in dorsal view without such protrusions on apical margin......................................... 2

2. The apex of male anal tube triangular in lateral view (Wang et al. 2016a: fig. 96). Periandrium with dorsal margin strongly convex at middle in lateral view (Wang et al. 2016a: fig. 101).................... A. fucizona Wang, Chou & Yuan, 2000

- The apex of male anal tube truncated in lateral view (Fig. 5). Periandrium with dorsal margin nearly straight at middle in lateral view (Fig. 9)................................................................... A. impunctata (Jacobi, 1905)

Notes

Published as part of Liu, Yidi, Ren, Yujie & Wang, Menglin, 2024, Sexual dimorphism in the genus Acothrura Melichar, 1915 (Hemiptera: Lophopidae) and description of male and female specimens of A. impunctata (Jacobi, 1905), pp. 225-238 in Zootaxa 5447 (2) on page 226, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5447.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/11119472

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Melichar
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Lophopidae
Genus
Acothrura
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Acothrura Melichar, 1915 sec. Liu, Ren & Wang, 2024

References

  • Melichar, L. (1915) Monographie der Lophopinen. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 13, 337 - 385.
  • Jacobi, A. (1905) Zur Kenntnis der Cicadenfauna von Tonking. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 21, 425 - 446.
  • Liang, A. P. (2000) Oriental Lophopidae: new taxa and taxonomic changes (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea). Reichenbachia, 33, 281 - 311.
  • Wang, M. L., Soulier-Perkins, A., Wang, Y. L. & Bourgoin, T. (2016 a) Taxonomic updates and descriptions of four new Lophopini planthopper species (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Lophopidae) from Yunnan province, South China. European Journal of Taxonomy, 185, 1 - 25. https: // doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2016.185
  • Wang, Y. L., Chou, I. & Yuan, F. (2000) Descriptions of a new record genus and species and a new species of Lophopidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) from China. Entomotaxonomia, 22 (4), 242 - 246.