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Galgoria herzbergi Schmidt 1932, comb. nov.

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Galgoria herzbergi (Schmidt, 1932) comb. nov.

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Tanna herzbergi Schmidt, 1932: 124 –125 [type locality: Kwangsi (= Guangxi), China]; Chen, 1933: 16; Kato, 1934: 153 –154 (herrbergi [sic]); Wu, 1935: 11; Liu, 1940: 86; Jacobi, 1944: 7 (Fujian); Kato, 1956: 92, 117; Chou et al., 1997: 221. Tanna apicalis Chen, 1940: 110 –111, fig. 4 [type locality: Lochen, Kwangsi (= Guangxi) Prov., China] (Tana [sic]); Chou et al., 1997: 221. syn. nov..

Tanna pseudocalis Lei & Chou, in Chou et al., 1997: 219, 220–221, 357, 368, fig. 9-68, pl. 10(104) [type locality: Jianfengling, Hainan, China] (Fujian, Hunan, and Hainan). syn. nov..

Synonymy. Tanna apicalis Chen, 1940 and Tanna pseudocalis Lei & Chou, 1997 are synonymized here with Galgoria herzbergi (Schmidt, 1932) comb. nov. because the three species are identical without sound morphological differences found to separate them.

The original description and illustrations of the male holotype of T. pseudocalis show that T. pseudocalis is identical with Galgoria herzbergi.

The male holotype of T. apicalis has not been able to be located. The original holotype depository of T. apicalis was “National Research Institute of Biology, Academia Sinica, Nanking” (= Nanjing, China) according to Chen (1940). Academia Sinica does not exist anymore in Nanjing, China but was relocated into Taiwan after World War II. It was told by Kwang-Tsao Shao (personal communication) at the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan that the specimens deposited in Nanjing had been destroyed during World War II. The original description and illustrations of T. apicalis show no discrepancies from the characteristics of the holotype of Galgoria herzbergi, except for the shapes of the apical cells 1 and 2 (the apical cell 1 is underdeveloped and is not connected with the radial crossvein; see Chen, 1940). These unusual shapes of the apical cells 1 and 2 in the holotype of T. apicalis are thought to be an aberrant form of venation because this kind of aberrant form of venation is sometimes observed in specimens of the Leptopsaltriini species. The illustration of the dorsal habitus of the holotype of T. apicalis made by Chen (1940) shows that the shapes of the apical cells 1 and 2 of the left fore wing are different from those of the right fore wing. This is the evidence of the aberrance of the venation of the holotype.

Distribution. China (Fujian, Hunan, Hainan, and Guangxi).

Notes

Published as part of Lee, Young June, 2016, Description of a new genus, Galgoria gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Leptopsaltriini: Leptopsaltriina), pp. 496-500 in Zootaxa 4109 (4) on pages 497-499, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4109.4.8, http://zenodo.org/record/267329

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Schmidt
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cicadidae
Genus
Galgoria
Species
herzbergi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Galgoria herzbergi (Schmidt, 1932) sec. Lee, 2016

References

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  • Chen, K. - F. (1933) A list of Chinese known Cicadidae. Entomology and Phytopathology, 1 (Suppl.), 1 - 48.
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  • Wu, C. F. (1935) Order XV. Homoptera. In: Catalogus Insectorum Sinensium, 2. The Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, Peiping, pp. 1 - 252.
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  • Chen, K. - F. (1940) New species of Cicadidae (Homopt.) from China. Nanking Journal, 9, 105 - 120.