Agudus longiceps
Authors/Creators
- 1. Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, 1816 S. Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820, USA.
- 2. United States Department of Agriculture, APHIS-PPQ-NIS, MRC- 168, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012, USA
Description
Agudus longiceps (Berg, 1879)
Platymetopius longiceps Berg, 1879: 267
Notes. This species, originally described from Buenos Aires, Argentina, was redescribed and illustrated by Linnavuori (1959) based on the type and an additional male specimen from a locality near Buenos Aires. It is considerably larger than other known species of the genus (males 9.5 mm long) and also differs in having a darkly pigmented ventral tooth on the pygofer lobe and the apical processes of the aedeagus sharply bent laterad near the apex. The female remains unknown. Recent collecting in pampas grasslands near Buenos Aires has failed to yield additional specimens of this species. Given the extensive urbanization and agricultural intensification in the Buenos Aires region since the species was originally collected and described, it appears that this species is now either extremely rare or extinct.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Berg
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Cicadellidae
- Genus
- Agudus
- Species
- longiceps
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Agudus longiceps (Berg, 1879) sec. Dietrich & Zahniser, 2026
References
- Berg, C. (1879) Hemiptera Argentina (Continuacion). Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, 8, 241-272.
- Linnavuori, R. E. (1959) Revision of the Neotropical Deltocephalinae and some related subfamilies (Homoptera). Annales Zoologici Societatis Zoologicae-Botanicae Fennicae ' Vanamo', 20 (1), 1-370.