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Spartacus Distant 1884

  • 1. Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Departamento de Entomologia (Full Professor retired), Avenida Peter Henry Rolfs, s / n, Viçosa, MG 36570 - 900, Brazil.
  • 2. Instituto Capixaba de Pesquisa, Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural, Rua Afonso Sarlo, 160, Bento Ferreira, Vitória / ES 29052 - 010, Brazil.
  • 3. Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Bacharelando em Cooperativismo, Departamento de Economia Rural, Edifício Edson Potsch Magalhães-R. Purdue, Campus Universitário, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
  • 4. Instituto Capixaba de Pesquisa, Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural (Incaper), Domingos Martins, ES, Brazil.

Description

Genus Spartacus Distant

Spartacus Distant, 1884: 300. Type species: Spartacus albatus Distant 1884: 300. Original designation. Spartacus: Carvalho 1945C:30 (diagnosis, distribution); Carvalho 1957:127 (catalog); Schuh 2002 –2013 (on-line catalog); Ferreira & Henry 2011: 27 (diagnosis, distribution, key to Minas Gerais spp); Henry & Howard 2016: 533 (revision of genus, descriptions of new species, keys to complex Sinervus, Spartacus, and Sinervaspartus).

Diagnosis. Elongate species. Head short and broad, with weakly stalked eyes; antennal segment I less than the width of the vertex; and the labium reaching the middle coxae. Pronotum long and constricted near the middle, with a swollen pronotum disc. Hemelytron with a narrow cuneus extending to the tip of the membrane; hemelytra and femora pilose.

Notes

Published as part of Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio Fiuza, Martins, David Dos Santos, Ferreira, Luciano Santana Fiuza & Fornazier, Maurício José, 2024, Synopsis of Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Atlantic Forest Dominion, Espírito Santo State, Brazil: keys, diagnoses, new species, plant associations, and geographic distribution. Part I: Bryocorinae, Cylapinae and Deraeocorinae., pp. 201-254 in Zootaxa 5468 (2) on pages 227-228, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5468.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11615431

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Distant
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Miridae
Genus
Spartacus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Spartacus Distant, 1884 sec. Ferreira, Martins, Ferreira & Fornazier, 2024

References

  • Distant, W. L. (1884) Insect. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Vol. I. In: Godman, F. D. C. & Salvin, O. (Eds.), Biologia Centrali-Americana. Published for the editor by R. H. Porter, London, pp. 265 - 304.
  • Carvalho, J. C. M. (1957) A catalogue of the Miridae of the world. Part I. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 44, 1 - 158.
  • Schuh, R. T. (2002 - 2013) On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae). Available from: http: // research. amnh. org / pbi / catalog / (accessed 17 September 2023)
  • Ferreira, P. S. F. & Henry, T. J. (2011) Synopsis and keys to the tribe, genera, and species of Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Part I: Bryocorinae. Zootaxa, 2920 (1), 1 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2920.1.1
  • Henry, T. J. & Howard, S. Z. (2016) Revision of the Neotropical plant bug genus Sinervus Stal (Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae: Eccritotarsini), with the description of four new species and a closely related new genus. Proceeding of the Entomological Society of Washington, 118 (4), 533 - 554. https: // doi. org / 10.4289 / 0013 - 8797.118.4.533