Stephanitis (Stephanitis) Stål, 1873

Knudson, Alexander H., Rider, David A. & Knodel, Janet J., 2021, Two new species of Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Panama, Zootaxa 4958 (1), pp. 334-344 : 338

Stephanitis (Stephanitis) Stål, 1873

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Tingis: Laporte, 1833: 48 . (not Fabricius, 1803)

Stephanitis Stål, 1873: 119 , 123.

Tingis: Lethierry & Severin, 1896: 12 . (not Fabricius, 1803)

Cadamustus Distant, 1903: 47 . (syn. by Horváth, 1906a)

Maecenas Kirkaldy, 1904: 280 . (unnecessary new name for Tingis Lethierry & Severin, 1896 ; syn. by Horváth, 1906a) Calliphanes Horváth, 1906b: 34 . (unnecessary new name for Stephanitis: Champion, 1898 ; syn. by Drake & Maa, 1953) Mokanna Distant, 1910a: 111 . (syn. by Horváth, 1912)

Type species: Stephanitis Stål, 1873 : Acanthia pyri Fabricius, 1775 by subsequent designation ( Horváth, 1906b). Cadamustus Distant, 1903 : Cadamustus typicus Distant, 1903 by indication. Maecenas Kirkaldy, 1904 : Acanthia pyri Fabricius, 1775 by subsequent designation ( Drake and Ruhoff 1960). Calliphanes Horváth, 1906b : Tingis mitrata by original designation. Mokanna Distant, 1910a : Mokanna princeps Distant, 1910a , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Stephanitis can be separated from all other known genera by the following combination of characters: macropterous, pubescent or hairless above, without spinules on the veins of the areolae of the pronotum and hemelytra. Head with five cephalic spines, antennae slender, basiflagellomere, nearly half as long as body. Bucculae may or may not be contiguous apically, but comprised of at least two rows of areolae on lateral margins. Pronotal hood moderately globose or laterally compressed, almost completely covering head dorsally. Paranota wide, and raised posteriorly, reflexed and curved onto posterior dorsum of pronotum, lateral margins may be armed with spinules. Pronotum tricarinate, lateral carinae sometimes greatly reduced, median carinae usually as tall as pronotal hood (except S. joceliae ) and extending to apex of posterior triangular projection. Costal area wide, at least biseriate; subcostal areas subvertical, at times forming a rounded tumidity with discoidal areas; discoidal areas short, less than one third the length of hemelytra, rm vein weak or absent in some species; sutural areas biseriate to triseriate. Legs long, slender. Ostiolar peritreme well developed.

Figures

FIGURE 3. A–D. Stephanitis joceliae sp. nov. (A) Dorsal habitus. (B) Lateral habitus. (C) Ventral habitus. (D) Labels. Scale bar: A–C, 2.0 mm.

FIGURE 4. Distribution of new species of Tingidae in Panama.