Published February 26, 2025 | Version v1
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Acalypta Westwood 1840

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Shirakami Research Center for Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Aomori, Japan

Description

Genus

AcalyptaWestwood, 1840

Acalypta Westwood, 1840: 121. Type species by original designation: Tingis carinata Panzer, 1806.

Note.

For synonyms and detailed descriptions of the genus see Drake and Lattin (1963), Péricart (1978, 1983), and Péricart and Golub (1996).

Remarks.

The genus Acalypta, which is distributed only in the northern hemisphere, previously comprised 46 species (cf. Souma 2019, 2023 a), but in this study, the author describes a new species, A. alutacea sp. nov., increasing the number of species to 47. Among them, the following eight species have been known from Japan: A. cooleyi; A. gracilis; A. hirashimai; A. marginata; A. miyamotoi; A. pallidicoronata; A. sauteri; and A. tsurugisana (Yamada and Ishikawa 2016; Souma 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 a). However, with the description of A. alutacea sp. nov. and the first record of A. carinata from Japan, a total of ten Acalypta species are currently recognized.

Notes

Published as part of Souma, Jun, 2025, A new species and two new records of the moss-feeding lace bug genus Acalypta (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Tingidae) from Hokkaido, northern Japan, with an illustrated key to the Japanese species of the genus, pp. 107-132 in ZooKeys 1229 on pages 107-132, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1229.142344

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Westwood
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Tingidae
Genus
Acalypta
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Acalypta Westwood, 1840 sec. Souma, 2025

References

  • Drake CJ, Lattin JD (1963) American species of the lacebug genus Acalypta (Heteroptera: Tingidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 115: 331–345. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.115-3486.331
  • Péricart J (1978) Révision systematique des Tingidae ouest-paléarctiques. 5. Contribution à la connaissance du genre Acalypta Westwood (Hemiptera). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, New Series 14: 683-701. [in French with English summary] https://doi.org/10.1080/21686351.1978.12278712
  • Péricart J (1983) Faune de France 69. Hémiptères Tingidae euro-méditerranéens. Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris, France, 620 pp. [in French]
  • Péricart J, Golub VB (1996) Superfamily Tingoidea Laporte, 1832. In: Aukema B, Rieger C (Eds) Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Vol. 2, Cimicomorpha I. Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands 3–78.
  • Souma J (2019) A new species and a new record of the genus Acalypta (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Japan. Zootaxa 4609 (1): 178–184. [in Japanese] https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4609.1.10
  • Souma J (2023 a) New Japanese names or recently revised scientific names for 31 species in 15 genera of lace bugs (Heteroptera, Tingidae). Rostria 68: 1–19. [in Japanese]
  • Yamada K, Ishikawa T (2016) Family Tingidae. In: Hayashi M, Tomokuni M, Yoshizawa K, Ishikawa T (Eds) Catalogue of the insects of Japan Volume 4 Paraneoptera. Touka-shobo, Fukuoka, Japan, 429–435. [in Japanese] https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12455
  • Souma J (2020) First record of the lace bug species Acalypta gracilis (Fieber, 1844) (Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Japan proper. Rostria 65: 66–70. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e62868
  • Souma J (2021) New record of the lace bug species Acalypta marginata (Wolff) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Japan. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: e 62868. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e62868