Genus Prosops Buckton, 1893

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• Prosops Buckton, G.B. in French, C. 1893. Notes on a new Victorian injurious insect (with description by G.B. Buckton, F.R.S.). Victorian Naturalist 9: 48-50 [49].

  Type species:

   Prosops pedisequus Buckton, 1893 by monotypy.

Introduction

This genus was regarded as a nomen dubium by Löcker et.al. (2006), although they stated that Prosops closely resembles Ozoliarus Löcker in having 3 lateral spines and 6 large apical teeth on the hind tibia and 7 apical teeth on the first and second tarsomere, and this may indicate that Prosops is a senior synonym of Ozoliarus. The syntype series of P. pedisequus consists of three females mounted on a glass slide and the carination of the head is obscured.

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Vic: South East Coastal Plain (SCP)

Diagnosis

Prosops differs from Cordoliarus in the shape of the head, from Oteana in the presence of 7 apical teeth on the 2nd tarsomere, from Oliarus in the presence of three lateral spines on the hind tibia and 7 apical teeth on the 2nd tarsomere, and from species of Miclucha in the number of apical teeth on the hind legs/and or shape of the areolets. Prosops cannot be differentiated from Ozoliarus without removing the syntype females of P. pedisequus from the slide on which they are mounted.

General References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [103]

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