Hemisphaeroides Melichar, 1903

Meng, Rui, Webb, Michael Donald & Wang, Ying-Lun, 2017, Nomenclatural changes in the planthopper tribe Hemisphaeriini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Issidae), with the description of a new genus and a new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 298, pp. 1-25 : 19-22

Hemisphaeroides Melichar, 1903

Figs 10–11

Hemisphaeroides Melichar, 1903: 75 .

Type species: Hemisphaeroides aeneoniger Melichar, 1903 , by original designation.

Diagnosis

Body semicircular, smooth. Head including eyes wider than pronotum. Coryphe wide, 4.5 times as wide as long. Metope passing smoothly onto coryphe, greatly expanded laterally below antennae. Clypeus broadly triangular, placed horizontally and at right angle to surface of metope. Pronotum short, slightly longer than coryphe. Mesonotum large, triangularly convex. Tegmen semicircular, strongly convex, basal costal margin slightly protruding anteriorly. Hind wing with single lobe, slightly shorter than tegmen. Hind tibiae with two spines.

Distribution

Sri Lanka.

Checklist of species of Hemisphaeroides Melichar, 1903

H. aeneoniger Melichar, 1903 . Melichar 1903: 75 (type species), Sri Lanka; Distant 1906: 364, fig. 188 ( Fig. 10 A–E)

H. atromaculatus Distant, 1916 comb. nov. As Hemisphaerius atromaculatus Distant, 1916: 105 , Sri Lanka ( Fig. 10 F–I)

H. fuscoclypeatus Distant, 1916 comb. nov. As Hemisphaerius fuscoclypeatus Distant 1916: 105 , Sri Lanka ( Fig. 11 A–D)

H. lineatus Melichar, 1903 . Melichar 1903: 76, Sri Lanka ( Fig. 11 E–H)

Remarks

Hemisphaeroides aeneoniger and H. lineatus are known to us from images of their type specimens (HNHM) provided here. Images of the type specimens examined of H. atromaculatus (BMNH(E) 1705790) and H. fuscoclypeatus (BMNH(E) 1705791) are also provided here.

Figures

Fig. 10. Hemisphaeroides spp. A–E. Hemisphaeroides aeneoniger Melichar, 1903, syntype. A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Habitus, lateral view. C. Labels. D. Habitus, ventral view. E. Habitus, caudal view. — F–I. Hemisphaeroides atromaculatus Distant, 1916, syntype. F. Habitus, dorsal view. G. Habitus, lateral view. H. Metope and clypeus, facial view. I. Labels. Scale bar = 1 mm.

Fig. 11. Hemisphaeroides spp. A–D. Hemisphaeroides fuscoclypeatus Distant, 1916, holotype. A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Metope and clypeus, facial view. C. Habitus, lateral view. D. Labels. — E–H. Hemisphaeroides lineatus Melichar, 1903, syntype. E. Habitus, dorsal view. F. Metope and clypeus, facial view. G. Habitus, lateral view. H. Labels. Scale bar = 1 mm.