Sarimissus Wang, Zhang & Bourgoin, 2019

Wang, Menglin, Zhang, Yalin & Bourgoin, Thierry, 2020, Notes on genera of Sarimini with description of two new species in the genera Microsarimodes and Tetrichina (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Issidae), Zootaxa 4858 (4), pp. 589-600 : 598

Genus: Sarimissus Wang, Zhang & Bourgoin, 2019 , stat. rev. [valid genus]

syn. of Nikomiklukha Gnezdilov, 2010 : Gnezdilov, 2020: 1302 [error]

Type species: Sarimissus maculifrons Wang, Zhang & Bourgoin, 2019 , nom. rev. [valid name]

Nikomiklukha maculifrons ( Wang, Zhang & Bourgoin, 2019) : Gnezdilov (2020): 1302 [error]

Sarimissus and Nikomiklukha differ by several morphological characters of generic value that allow us to regard them without any hesitation as two different taxa. In dorsal view, the vertex is around 1.5 times wider than long in Sarimissus , while it is longer than broad in Nikomiklukha ( Gnezdilov, 2010: fig. 8). In frontal view, the head capsule is definitively much wider in Sarimissus than in Nikomiklukha and the frontal lateral carinae are much developed and foliated. In the hindwing, the apex of Pcu and A1 1 is single while it is bifurcated in Nikomiklukha ( Gnezdilov, 2010: fig. 13). The male genitalia are also different with gonostyli longer than wide in Sarimissus while wider than long in Nikomiklukha ( Gnezdilov, 2010: fig. 31), and with male genitalia ventro-lateral processes being subapical and convex in ventral view in Sarimissus , while situated in mid part and concave in Nikomiklukha ( Gnezdilov, 2010: figs 28, 29). To avoid any confusion with Nikomiklukha , these characters should be added to the diagnosis already published for the genus Sarimissus Wang, Zhang & Bourgoin, 2019 . Unfortunately, and despite several attempts, we could not yet get reliable sequences for the described taxa to further confirm, also from a molecular point of view, the validity of Sarimissus as a valid separate genus.