Tapirissus Gnezdilov, 2014

Rui Meng, Yinglun Wang & Daozheng Qin, 2016, A key to the genera of Issini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Issidae) of China and neighbouring countries, with descriptions of a new genus and two new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 181, pp. 1-25 : 12

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2016.181
publication LSID	urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BAA1A445-2005-421F-81C2-493851B1F689
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6081814
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BA3B24-FFC4-FF9C-7ED2-1C3EFE8FFC04
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Tapirissus Gnezdilov, 2014
status

Treatment

Tapirissus Gnezdilov, 2014 View in CoL

Tapirissus Gnezdilov, 2014: 762 View in CoL (type species: Tapirissus guilberti Gnezdilov, 2014 View in CoL , by original designation).

Diagnosis

The genus can be recognized by the following characters: medium-sized; frons elongate and wholly visible from above, sublateral carinae absent, frons and vertex joined at obtuse angle; postclypeus large, in shape of flattened laterally proboscis bearing a median carina, resembling a chisel; tegmen with reticulate venation and without hypocostal plate; hind wing one-lobed; hind tibia distally with a single lateral spine.