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Gergithus (Maculergithus) Constant & Pham 2016

  • 1. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 6 E 6072 A 1 - 9415 - 4 C 8 D- 8 E 60 - 2504444 DB 290 & Corresponding author: jerome. constant @ naturalsciences. be
  • 2. Vietnam National Museum of Nature, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Street, Hanoi, Vietnam. & Email: phamthai @ vnmn. vast. vn & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: E 34 CB 863 - 7 E 3 B- 4 E 8 F- 8738 - B 41 C 07 D 9 F 5 F 9

Description

Identification key to the species of Gergithus (Maculergithus):

1. Vertex brown; yellow round spot on frons near dorsal margin (Fig. 2C); tegmina with 10 yellow spots in total (Fig. 2D). Recorded from Jianfeng Mountain, Hainan, China ………………………… ………………………………… Gergithus (Maculergithus) multipunctatus Che, Zhang & Wang, 2007

– Vertex yellow; yellow spot of frons extending to vertex, or no yellow spot on dorsal half of frons; tegmina with 8, 9 or 10 yellow spots in total ……………………………………………………2

2. Yellow spot of frons extending to vertex (Fig. 2A, G) ………………………………………………3 – Dorsal half of frons brown without yellow spot (Fig. 2E, I) ……………………………………4

3. Tegmina with 2 yellow spots along sutural margin and 8 yellow spots in total (Fig. 2B). Recorded from Tam Dao N.P., Vietnam …………………… G. (Maculergithus) luteomaculatus subgen. et sp. nov.

– Tegmina with 3 yellow spots along sutural margin and 10 yellow spots in total (Fig. 2H). Recorded from Tam Dao N.P., Vietnam …………………… …… G.(Maculergithus) tamdao subgen. et sp. nov.

4. Tegmina with 9 yellow spots in total (Fig. 2F). Recorded from Bawangling Mountain, Hainan, China …………………………………… G. (Maculergithus) nonomaculatus Meng & Wang, 2012

– Tegmina with 10 yellow spots in total (Fig. 2J). Recorded from Wuzhishan, Hainan, China ………… ……………………………………………………………………………… G. (Maculergithus) sp.

Notes

Published as part of Constant, Jérôme & Pham, Hong-Thai, 2016, Maculergithus, a new subgenus in Gergithus Schumacher, 1915 with two new species from northern Vietnam (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Issidae), pp. 1-16 in European Journal of Taxonomy 198 on page 6, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.198, http://zenodo.org/record/3838140

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Issidae
Genus
Gergithus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Constant & Pham
Taxon rank
subGenus
Taxonomic concept label
Gergithus (Maculergithus) Constant, 2016 sec. Constant & Pham, 2016

References

  • Che Y. - L, Zhang Y. - L. & Wang Y. - L. 2007. Seven new species and one new record of Gergithus Stal (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Issidae) from China. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 109 (3): 611 - 627.
  • Meng R. & Wang Y. 2012. Two new species of the genus Gergithus Stal (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Issidae) from China, with a redescription of G. bimaculatus Zhang and Che, and G. tessellatus Matsumura. Zootaxa 3247: 1 - 18.