Eumecurus brachycephalus ( Distant, 1907 )

Huang, Min & Holzinger, Werner E., 2010, Cixiidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from Namibia, with records from neighbouring countries, Zootaxa 2717, pp. 34-52 : 39

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.199755

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6198122

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scientific name

Eumecurus brachycephalus ( Distant, 1907 )
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Eumecurus brachycephalus ( Distant, 1907) View in CoL

Fig 9 View FIGURES 1 – 13

Oliarus brachycephalus Distant, 1907: 193 View in CoL ( South Africa: Transvaal, Pretoria) Eumecurus brachycephalus (Distant) View in CoL , Emeljanov 1992

Material examined. Namibia: 1 male, 80km W Runda, Otjovasandu (19°15’S, 14°30’E), Etosha Nat. Park, 7.v.1987, J. Irish, E. Marais ( NMNW).

Description. see Van Stalle (1987: 73, as Oliarus brachycephalus )

Distribution. South Africa, Namibia (Okahandia, Etosha).

Ecology. recorded during the rainy season.

Distant, W. L. (1907) A contribution to a knowledge of the entomology of South Africa. Insecta Transvaaliensia, 8, 181 - 204.

Emeljanov, A. F. (1992) Planthoppers of family Cixiidae from vicinity of Ambo, Ethiopia (Homoptera, Cicadina). Zoosystematica Rossica, 1 (1), 20 - 36.

Van Stalle, J. (1987) Revision of Afrotropical Pentastirini (Homoptera, Cixiidae) V: the genus Oliarus Stal, 1862. Zoologische Wetenschappen, Sciences Zoologiques, 252, 1 - 173.

Gallery Image

FIGURES 1 – 13. Habitus photographs, dorsolateral view. 1. Duilius tenuis, female; 2. Pentastiridius moestus, male; 3. P. sudanicus, male; 4. P. limbifer, male; 5. Eumecurus incompletus, male; 6 E. kibuyanus, male; 7. E. decempunctatus, male; 8. E. mashonanus, male; 9. E. brachycephalus, male; 10. Atonurus meridianus, male; 11. E. hottentottus, female; 12. A. namibianus, male; 13. E. eryx, female. Scale bar A = 1 mm for figs 1 – 6, scale bar B = 1 mm for figs 7 – 13.

NMNW

National Museum of Namibia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cixiidae

Tribe

Pentastirini

Genus

Eumecurus