Tropiduchidae (Fulgoroidea: Homoptera) from the Mascarenes

Code (CO)	MSI99P0314
Author (AU)	Williams, J. R.
Title - English (ET)	Tropiduchidae (Fulgoroidea: Homoptera) from the Mascarenes
Document Type(DT)	Periodical article
Date of publication (DP)	1981
Series (SE)	J. ent. Soc. Sth. Afr.
Source (SO)	44: 109-130
Language of text (LT)	En
Language of summaries (LS)	En
Abstract (AB)	Nine species of Tropiduchidae from the Mascarenes are described, four of them being new, and five new genera are proposed, namely Pseudoclardea, Idiomyctus, Aethomyctus, Cyrtomycta and Cuneoceps. The species are Clardea unicolor Signoret, Pseudoclardea leguati (Muir), comb. nov., Idiomyctus nigrostriatus (Synave), comb. nov., I. simus spec. nov., I. notatulus (Stal), comb. nov., Aethomyctus viridus spec. nov., Conchyoptera unicolor Signoret, Cyrtomycta perisema spec. nov. and Cuneoceps insularis spec. nov. Clardea mauritii Synave is synonymised with Clardea unicolor Signoret. All are indigenous to the Mascarenes and are frequent only indigenous Mascarene plants.
Descriptors - English (DE)	INSECTS FAUNA
Descriptors - Geographic (DG)	MASCARENE ISLANDS
Sort Key 1(K1)	Fauna
Date record entered (DA)	1992-02-19
Language of analysis (LA)	En
Affiliation (AF)	Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute
Location (LO)	ENTO
Processing status (PS)	CAT
MSIRI Staff (MS)	msiri