Hemisphaeroides Melichar, 1903

Meng, Rui, Webb, Michael Donald & Wang, Ying-Lun, 2017, Nomenclatural changes in the planthopper tribe Hemisphaeriini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Issidae), with the description of a new genus and a new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 298, pp. 1-25 : 19-22

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2017.298

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3846023

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA87E2-4F17-935A-7072-FA70BE4602C2

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scientific name

Hemisphaeroides Melichar, 1903
status

 

Hemisphaeroides Melichar, 1903 View in CoL

Figs 10–11 View Fig View Fig

Hemisphaeroides Melichar, 1903: 75 View in CoL .

Type species: Hemisphaeroides aeneoniger Melichar, 1903 View in CoL , by original designation.

Diagnosis

Body semicircular, smooth. Head including eyes wider than pronotum. Coryphe wide, 4.5 times as wide as long. Metope passing smoothly onto coryphe, greatly expanded laterally below antennae. Clypeus broadly triangular, placed horizontally and at right angle to surface of metope. Pronotum short, slightly longer than coryphe. Mesonotum large, triangularly convex. Tegmen semicircular, strongly convex, basal costal margin slightly protruding anteriorly. Hind wing with single lobe, slightly shorter than tegmen. Hind tibiae with two spines.

Distribution

Sri Lanka.

Checklist of species of Hemisphaeroides Melichar, 1903

H. aeneoniger Melichar, 1903 . Melichar 1903: 75 (type species), Sri Lanka; Distant 1906: 364, fig. 188 ( Fig. 10 View Fig A–E)

H. atromaculatus Distant, 1916 comb. nov. As Hemisphaerius atromaculatus Distant, 1916: 105 , Sri Lanka ( Fig. 10 View Fig F–I)

H. fuscoclypeatus Distant, 1916 comb. nov. As Hemisphaerius fuscoclypeatus Distant 1916: 105 , Sri Lanka ( Fig. 11 View Fig A–D)

H. lineatus Melichar, 1903 . Melichar 1903: 76, Sri Lanka ( Fig. 11 View Fig E–H)

Remarks

Hemisphaeroides aeneoniger and H. lineatus are known to us from images of their type specimens (HNHM) provided here. Images of the type specimens examined of H. atromaculatus (BMNH(E) 1705790) and H. fuscoclypeatus (BMNH(E) 1705791) are also provided here.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Issidae

Loc

Hemisphaeroides Melichar, 1903

Meng, Rui, Webb, Michael Donald & Wang, Ying-Lun 2017
2017
Loc

Hemisphaeroides

Melichar L. 1903: 75
1903
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