Pyrops delessertii
| Pyrops delessertii | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Family: | Fulgoridae |
| Genus: | Pyrops |
| Species: | P. delessertii |
| Binomial name | |
| Pyrops delessertii (Guérin-Méneville, 1840) | |
Pyrops delessertii is a species of true bug in the family Fulgoridae, in the genus Pyrops which are sometimes called as "lanternflies". This species is found in the Nilgiris and Western Ghats of southern India. The head and "snout" is greenish or brownish. The thorax has a reddish colour and there are three spots on the mesonotum.
The hindwings are bluish green with a broad black border along the margin. Specimens are known from Karwar, the Nilgiris and Trivandrum. Adolphe Delessert who discovered the species in the Nilgiris noted that it tended to be found along riverine forests and that it was hard to capture.[1][2] It differs slightly in pattern and length of the "snout" from Pyrops maculatus and is sometimes treated as a subspecies of P. maculatus.[3]
References
- ↑ Distant, WL (1906). Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Volume 3. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 189–190.
- ↑ Delessert, Adolphe (1843). Souvenirs d´un voyage dans l´Inde exécuté de 1834 à 1839. Paris: Bétrune et Plon for Fortin, Masson et Cie & Langlois et Leclerq. p. 66.
- ↑ Atkinson, E.T. (1885). "Notes on Indian Rhynchota. No 4". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal: 127–158.
