Genus Varcia Stål, 1870

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• Varcia Stål, C. 1870. Hemiptera insularum Philippinarum. Bidrag till Philippinska oarnes Hemipter-fauna. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 27: 607-776 [769] [first introduced as a subgenus of Miriza Stål, 1862].

  Type species:

   Varcia nigrovittata Stål, 1870 by subsequent designation, see Distant, W.L. 1906. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera—Homoptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 3 xiv 503 pp. [389].
• Varcilla Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Bibliographical and nomenclatorial notes on the Hemiptera. No. 6. The Entomologist 39: 247-249 [248] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Varcia Melichar, 1898].

Introduction

This genus is represented across the Oriental region and into New Guinea. Two species were described from Christmas Island. Metcalf (1954) indicates that Stål (1870) created a type species by monotypy but Stål (1870) included the description of two species, V. nigrovittata Stål from the Philppines and V. hilaris (Stål) from Indonesia. It was Distant's (1906) reference to V. nigrovittata as the type species which established the type species by subsequent designation. Kirkaldy (1906) considered Melichar's (1898) use of the name Varcia to differ from Stål's original and created a new name Varcilla for Varcia Melichar. He also considered Aphanophrys Melichar (1898) to be a synonym of Varcia Stål. Metcalf (1954) listed Varcilla Kirkaldy as a synonym of Varcia Stål and used Aphanophrys Melichar, with the type species Varcia hilaris (Stål), as a subgenus of Varcia.

Distribution

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Diagnosis

Tegmina areola basali venas tres emittente, vena radiali plus minus longe a basi furcata; venis clavi nonnihil ante medium clavi in unam conjunctis. Alae inter ramos, quos format ramus exterior venae longitudinalis tertiae, vena transversa destitutae (Stål 1870).

Diagnosis References

Stål, C. 1870. Hemiptera insularum Philippinarum. Bidrag till Philippinska oarnes Hemipter-fauna. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 27: 607-776 [769]

General References

Distant, W.L. 1906. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera—Homoptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 3 xiv 503 pp. [389]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Bibliographical and nomenclatorial notes on the Hemiptera. – No. VI. The Entomologist 39: 247-249 [248]

Melichar, L. 1898. Monographie der Ricaniiden (Homoptera). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien 13: 197-359 [315]

Metcalf, Z.P. 1954. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV, Fulgoroidea. Part 12, Nogodinidae. Raleigh N.C. : North Carolina State College 75 pp. [36–37]

Stål, C. 1870. Hemiptera insularum Philippinarum. Bidrag till Philippinska oarnes Hemipter-fauna. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 27: 607-776 [769–770]

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