Pediopsoides (Sispocnis) Anufriev, 1967

Li, Hu, Li, Juan & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2019, Review of the leafhopper subgenus Pediopsoides (Sispocnis) (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Eurymelinae, Macropsini) with description of two new species from China, ZooKeys 855, pp. 71-83 : 73

Subgenus Pediopsoides (Sispocnis) Anufriev, 1967

Oncopsis (Sispocnis) Anufriev, 1967: 174

Pediopsoides (Sispocnis) Hamilton, 1980: 897

Type species.

Bythoscopus kogotensis Matsumura, 1912, new designation.

The type species is fixed here under Article 70.3 of the ICZN as Bythoscopus kogotensis Matsumura, 1912, misidentified as Bythoscopus juglans Matsumura, 1912 in the original designation of Sispocnis by Anufriev (1967).

Distribution.

Palaearctic and Oriental Regions.

Diagnosis.

Pediopsoides (Sispocnis) is well known by the following features: face including eyes is clearly wider than long; the stripes on pronotum are usually transverse and weakly obscure, forewing has anteapical cells of variable number (2 or 3), male pygofer ventral processes generally bifid to multifid and twisted inward; and the dorsal connective usually carries a strongly developed process from its inner ventral margin.

Remarks.

Sispocnis was originally established as a subgenus under the genus Oncopsis by Anufriev (1967) for Bythoscopus juglans Matsumura, 1912 which was designated as the type species. Hamilton (1980) revised the status of Sispocnis and proposed it as a subgenus within Pediopsoides . Hamilton (1980) also recognized Anufriev’s (1967) identification of B. juglans Matsumura as a misidentification, and provisionally considered Oncopsis (Sispocnis) kurentsovi Anufriev as the type of the subgenus. Based on examination of the type specimens of Matsumura (1912) and Anufriev (1977), Okudera (2014) considered O. (S.) kurentsovi Anufriev as a junior synonym of B. kogotensis Matsumura, and recognized misidentifications of this species as B. juglans by Anufriev (1967) and Anufriev and Emeljanov (1988). Additionally, Okudera (2014) considered B. juglans Matsumura as a junior synonym of Oncopsis nitobei (Matsumura, 1912).

Herein, it is necessary to clarify the type species for the subgenus. Following the provisions of Article 70.3.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999), the type species is fixed here as Bythoscopus kogotensis Matsumura, 1912, misidentified as Bythoscopus juglans Matsumura, 1912 in the original designation by Anufriev (1967). Thus, Pediopsoides (Sispocnis) remains as a valid subgenus.