Tartessus, Stal

Metcalf, Z. P., 1946, Homoptera, Fulgoroidea and Jassoidea of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189, pp. 105-148 : 128

Genus TARTESSUS Stal

Tartessus Stal , Soc. ent. France, Ann. 5(4): 156, 1865. Logotype, Bytho­

scopus malayus Stal.

Head broad, broader than pronotum; vertex short, very broad; eyes large; postclypeus large; anteclypeus small; labium short, broad. Pronotum large, projecting anteriorly well in front on the eyes; posterior margin broadly sinuate; posterior lateral margins very short. Mesonotum large, nearly as long as the pronotum. Tegmina with two basal, three anteapical, and five apical cells; three cross veins between media and c1.;bitus

This is a large genus of some 36 known species. The species range from India through the Malay Peninsula eastward, through the East Indian islands to New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia south to Australia; northward, the species range through Indo-China, Formosa, the Ryukyu Islands to Japan. The new species described below are the first species to be recorded from Micronesia, as far as I can discover.

Distant selected Tartessus ferrugineus as the type of this genus apparently on the basis that Stal synonymized his Bythoscopus malayus with ferrugineus . However, later authors have not made these two synonymous, and, if the details illustrated by Signoret are correct, the genitalia are sufficiently distinct to keep the two species separated. I have, therefore, designated Bythoscopus malayus as the type of this genus until the matter can be studied further.