Genus Lasioscopus China, 1926
Lasioscopus acmaeops (Jacobi), type species of Lasioscopus China.
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Genus Lasioscopus China, 1926
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8 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Lasioscopus China, W.E. 1926. A new subfamily of Bythoscopidae (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1926: 289-296 [294].
Type species:
Eurymeloides acmaeops Jacobi, 1909 by original designation.
Introduction
This monotypic genus has been recorded only from the SW corner of Western Australia. L. acmaeops (Jacobi) is uniformly orange brown in colour.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Warren (WAR)
Diagnosis
Separated at once from Pogonoscopus by the broad flattened vertex and the flat depressed face which is covered with short hairs and armed with scattered short spinules, especially on the frons. The apex of the frons above the clypeus is strongly swollen to form a transverse ridge, the supra-antennal ridges are somewhat tuberculately elevated and the base of the frons and the vertex in the neighbourhood of the ocelli circularly depressed. The penultimate rostral joint does not extend to the apices of the hind coxae. The pronotum is relatively short, more than two and a half times as broad at the base as long in the middle; the cicatricial areas distinctly depressed; the anterior pronotal margin as in Pogonoscopus lightly but regularly reflexed to meet the slightly overhanging vertex. The tegmina are without pale markings, the wings with one or two supernumerary crossveins. The armature of the hind tibiae irregular as in Pogonoscopus but the spines much shorter and more robust. Female ovipositor with the toothed area distinctly longer than in Pogonoscopus with 27 teeth instead of the usual 19 to 22 in the latter genus (China 1926).
ID Keys
Evans 1966: 75
Diagnosis References
China, W.E. 1926. A new subfamily of Bythoscopidae (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1926: 289-296 [294–295]
Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [75]
History of changes
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