Paloniella Poppius 1915
Creators
- 1. Department of Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru 560 065, India.
- 2. Département de l'Etude du Milieu Naturel et Agricole, Service Public de Wallonie, Gembloux, BE- 5030, Belgium. frederic. cherot @ spw. wallonie. be; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7918 - 7012
- 3. Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, c / o National Museum of Natural History, MRC- 168, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013 - 7013 USA.
Description
Paloniella Poppius, 1915
Paloniella Poppius, 1915: 76 (as new genus); Akingbohungbe 1996: 102–103 (review of European and African species); Kerzhner & Josifov 1999: 5 (catalogue); Schuh 2002 –2013 (online catalogue). Type species: Isometopus feanus Distant, 1904 from Burma, by original designation.
Letaba Hesse, 1947: 34 (as new genus), A homonym of Letaba Dyar, 1912 (Lepidoptera); synonymized by Akingbohungbe 1996: 102. Type species: Letaba bedfordi Hesse, 1947 from South Africa, by original designation.
Diagnosis. Recognised by the elongate oval to oval body in males and the strongly oval body in females, the strongly appressed head, the frons with a flange-like hood, the relatively small ocelli placed near the eyes on the vertex, widely separated by a distance greater than three times their diameter in males and greater than five times their diameter in females.
Distribution. Widely distributed in the Afrotropical Region. Also present in China (Fujian, Guangxi, Tibet), India, and Myanmar.
Note. Although McAtee & Malloch (1924, 1932) considered Paloniella a synonym of Isometopus, Akingbohungbe (1996) treated it a valid genus, an action we follow in this paper. Herczek (1993) treated Ren & Yang’s (1988) genus Paraletaba (type species: Paraletaba montana Ren & Yang, 1987 from China) as a subgenus of Paloniella.
Two species are known in India.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Miridae
- Genus
- Paloniella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Poppius
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Paloniella Poppius, 1915 sec. Yeshwanth, Chérot & Henry, 2021
References
- Poppius, B. (1915) H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute: Nabidae, Anthocoridae, Termatophylidae, Miridae, Isometopidae und Ceratocombidae (Hemiptera). Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 80 A (8), 1 - 80. [1914]
- Akingbohungbe, A. E. (1996) The Isometopinae (Heteroptera: Miridae) of Africa, Europe and Middle East. Delar Tertiary Publisher, Ibadan, 174 pp
- Kerzhner, I. M. & Josifov, M. (1999) Miridae Hahn, 1888. In: Aukema, B. & Rieger, C. (Eds.), Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Vol. 3. Cimicomorpha II. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, pp. 1 - 576
- Schuh, R. T. (2002 - 2013) On-line Systematic Catalogue of Plant Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae). Available from: http: // research. amnh. org / pbi / catalogue / (accessed 28 October 2020)
- Distant, W. L. (1904) The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylan and Burma. Rhynchota. Vol. 2. Part 2. Taylor & Francis, London, pp. 243 - 503.
- Hesse, A. J. (1947) A remarkable new dimorphic isometopid and two other new species of Hemiptera predaceous upon the red scale of citrus. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 10, 31 - 35.
- McAtee, W. L. & Malloch, J. R. (1924) Some annectant bugs of the superfamily Cimicoideae (Heteroptera). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 19, 69 - 82, 1 pl.
- McAtee, W. L. & Malloch, J. R. (1932) Notes on the genera of Isometopinae (Heteroptera). Stylops, 1, 62 - 70. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 3113.1932. tb 01353. x
- Herczek, A. (1993) Systematic position of Isometopinae Fieb. (Miridae, Heteroptera) and their interrelationships. Prace Naukowe Uniw. Slaskiego, 1357, 1 - 86.
- Ren, S. - Z. & Yang, C. - K. (1988) New genus and new species of Isometopidae from China (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). Entomotaxonomia, 10, 75 - 82.