Review of the new world treehopper tribe Stegaspidini (Hemiptera : Membracidae : Stegaspidinae): I: Bocydium latreille, Lirania Stal, and Smerdalea Fowler
Jr. Cryan et Ll. Deitz, Review of the new world treehopper tribe Stegaspidini (Hemiptera : Membracidae : Stegaspidinae): I: Bocydium latreille, Lirania Stal, and Smerdalea Fowler, P ENT S WAS, 101(3), 1999, pp. 469-489
Citations number
59
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology/Pest Control
Journal title
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON
The tribe Stegaspidini Haupt, 1929 (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Stegaspidinae)
and three included genera, Bocydium Latreille, Lirania Stal, and Smerdalea
Fowler, are described and illustrated based on adult and nymphal morphology
. Bocydium has 15 valid species, including B. duoglobum Cryan, new species;
Lirania is monotypic; and Smerdalea has 4 valid species, including S. immi
nens Cryan, new species. The genus Smerdalea is transferred from the tribe
Microcentrini to Stegaspidini; a description of the previously unknown nymp
h of S. elevata Cryan is given. Updated taxonomic keys for the tribe and fo
r the genera Bocydium and Smerdalea are presented; complete species checkli
sts are compiled, with synonymies, for each genus.