Bythoscopus, Germar, 1833

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

Genus BYTHOSCOPUS Germar

Bythoscopus Germar , Rev. Ent. Silbermann 1: 180, 1833. Logotype, Cicada lanio Lin'naeus .

The genus may be characterized briefly as follows: Head usually nearly as broad as the pronotum; crown short and broad; face short and broad with the ocelli well below the level of the dorsal margin. Pronotum short and broad; the anterior margin not projecting in front of the anterior margin of the compound eyes. Mesonotum short, broadly triangular. Tegmina translucent; venation indistinct.

This is a genus of about 90 species of world-wide distribution. Osborn (21) described four new species from Samoa and listed a fifth species, previously recorded from Ceylon, for this region. Only one other species has been recorded from Pacific islands, and no species have heretofore been recorded frbm Micronesia.