Microschema Stål gen. reval. and a correction in the labelling of the type specimen of Hoplophora straminicolor Stål (Homoptera, Membracidae)¹

 

 

Albino M. Sakakibara^I; Antônio J. Creão-Duarte^II

^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

 

 

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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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REFERENCES

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McKamey, S.H. & L.L. Deitz. 1991. Nomenclatural changes in the treehopper tribes Hoplophorionini, Smiliini, and Talipedini (Homoptera: Membracidae). Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 93 (1):193-196.         [ Links ]

Metcalf, Z.P. & V. Wade. 1965. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Raleigh, North Carolina State University, 1552p.         [ Links ]

Sakakibara, A.M. 1979. Micropepla mourei gen.n., sp.n. de Hoplophorioninae (Homoptera, Membracidae). Dusenia 11 (3):143-146.         [ Links ]

Stål, C. 1862. Bidrag till Rio-Janeiro tracktens Hemipter-fauna. Ofvers. af Svenska Vetens. Akad. Forh. 3 (6):1-75.         [ Links ]

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

 

 

1 Contribuição número 950 do Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná