Thabena fissala ( Fieber, 1876 ) Fieber, 1876

Gnezdilov, Vladimir M., Soulier-Perkins, Adeline & Bourgoin, Thierry, 2011, Fieber’s original drawings and their corresponding types for the family Issidae (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle of Paris, France, Zootaxa 2806, pp. 24-34 : 29

Thabena fissala ( Fieber, 1876) , comb. n.

Issus fissala Fieber, 1876: 259 , [separata 1876: 249] ( Figs 9 ; 10A, B)

Type material examined. Lectotype (here designated) ( MNHN (EH)7480) (specimen without abdomen), with Noualhier’s hand-written label: “ Type Fieber” (NLC).

Note. The species was based on a male (or males) from Portugal (in Fieber’s manuscript: “Aus Portugal (Fieber)”). The specimen from NLC corresponds to Fieber’s drawings and this is here designated as lectotype. I. fissala belongs to the Oriental genus Thabena Stål, 1866 , redefined recently by Gnezdilov (2009), according to the features: metope with median carina crossed by transverse carina below its upper margin, fore wings narrowing apically, without hypocostal plate, clavus with cuspidal caudo-dorsal angle, hind wings well developed, bilobed. Fieber figured a very wide male anal tube which is also a characteristic feature of some species of the genus Thabena .

GENUS TSHURTSHURNELLA KUSNEZOV, 1927

Figures

FIGURE 9 — Thabena fissala (Fieber, 1876) (as FIGURE 11 — Tshurtshurnella striolata (Fieber, “ fissala ”). 1877) (as “ striolatum ”).