Bythoscopus atrifrons, Metcalf, Z. P., 1946

Metcalf, Z. P., 1946, Homoptera, Fulgoroidea and Jassoidea of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189, pp. 105-148 : 136-137

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5174008

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5B298959-4DF9-41E7-8490-E413E8B7B562

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5186822

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/416187ED-EB44-FFE1-FE06-421489CFF5B8

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Bythoscopus atrifrons
status

sp. nov.

2. Bythoscopus atrifrons , new species (fig. 22, a-c).

Quite similar in general structure and coloration to B. viridoflavidus with a short narrow crown. Male with the face except ocelli entirely black. Male last ventral segment bisinuate; plates elongate, shorter than the pygofer, gradually diverging, apices slender;

genital style narrow, about as long as the aedeagus. Female last ventral segment deeply excavated on the posterior border; the pygofer elongate, slender.

Length: to apex of tegmina, 4.5 mm.; to apex of abdomen, 4 mm.

Holotype male, Barrigada, July 22, from Morinda sp. , Swezey ; allotype female, Barrigada , June 12, Swezey ; paratype, one male, Upi Trail , May 5, Swezey .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

SuperFamily

Fulgoroidea

Family

Bythoscopidae

Genus

Bythoscopus

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF