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Microschema Stål gen. reval. and a correction in the labelling of the type specimen of Hoplophora straminicolor Stål (Homoptera, Membracidae)

Abstract

The genus Microschema Stål, 1869 (type species: Hoplophora straminicolor Stål, 1862) is here reinstated and redescribed. Micropepla Sakakibara, 1979 is considered its new synonym. Microschema straminicolor (Stål, 1862), comb.n. is also redescribed and illustrated; Micropepla mourei Sakakibara, 1979, is a new synonym. The holotype of Hoplophora straminicolor Stål (in the Museum of Stockholm) was mislabelled. The correction is here made and the true type specimen duly labelled as Holotype.

Homoptera; Membracidae; Microschema; taxonomy


Microschema Stål gen. reval. and a correction in the labelling of the type specimen of Hoplophora straminicolor Stål (Homoptera, Membracidae)1 1 Contribuição número 950 do Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Albino M. SakakibaraI; Antônio J. Creão-DuarteII

IDepartamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba. 58059-900 João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brasil

IIDepartamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná. Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-990 Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil. Bolsista do CNPq

ABSTRACT

The genus Microschema Stål, 1869 (type species: Hoplophora straminicolor Stål, 1862) is here reinstated and redescribed. Micropepla Sakakibara, 1979 is considered its new synonym. Microschema straminicolor (Stål, 1862), comb.n. is also redescribed and illustrated; Micropepla mourei Sakakibara, 1979, is a new synonym. The holotype of Hoplophora straminicolor Stål (in the Museum of Stockholm) was mislabelled. The correction is here made and the true type specimen duly labelled as Holotype.

Key words: Homoptera, Membracidae, Microschema, taxonomy

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Recebido em 17.VI.1996; aceito em 20.XII.1996.

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    Contribuição número 950 do Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná
  • Publication Dates

    • Publication in this collection
      13 July 2009
    • Date of issue
      1996

    History

    • Accepted
      20 Dec 1996
    • Received
      17 June 1996
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