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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Planthoppers (Fulgoromorpha) » Fulgoroidea » Issid Planthoppers (Issidae) » Thioniinae » Fowlerium » Fowlerium acutum

Species Fowlerium acutum

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Season · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Fowlerium acuta (Doering) - Fowlerium acutum

Fowlerium acutum (Doering) - Fowlerium acutum

Hopper on Texas Bindweed - Fowlerium acutum

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Auchenorrhyncha (True Hoppers)

Infraorder Fulgoromorpha (Planthoppers)

Superfamily Fulgoroidea

Family Issidae (Issid Planthoppers)

Subfamily Thioniinae

Genus Fowlerium

Species acutum (Fowlerium acutum)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Fowlerium acutum (Doering)

Orig. Comb: Thionia acuta Doering 1941

Syn: Thionia naso Fowler, 1904

Explanation of Names

acutum (L). 'sharp' (1)

Numbers

10 spp. n. of Mex.

Range

OK to Mex.(2), + NM (BG data)

Season

May-June

Remarks

Type specimens are: Male holotype, female allotype, eight female paratypes and three male paratypes, taken by Mr. Paul Oman at Concan, [Uvalde Co.] Texas, June 4, 1933. These types are in the National Museum. Two male paratypes and two female paratypes taken by R. H. Beamer, at Concan, Texas, on June 6, 1936. (Doering 1941)

See Also

Fowlerium productum - Range: sw US

Fowlerium acutum - Range: OK-Mex

Print References

Doering, K.C. 1941. A contribution to the taxonomy of the subfamily Issinae in America north of Mexico. (Fulgoridae, Homoptera). Part IV. University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 27(10): 185-233. (Full Text)

Gnezdilov, V.M. 2018. To the revision of the genus Thionia Stål (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Issidae), with description of new genera and new subtribe. Zootaxa 4434 (1): 158–170. (3)

Internet References

Genus page - Univ. Delaware(2)

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

2.	Bartlett C.R. and contributors (2017-) Planthoppers of North America

3.	To the revision of the genus Thionia Stål (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Issidae), with description of new genera and new subtribe Vladimir Gnezdilov. 2018. Zootaxa 4434(1):158–170.

Contributed by Brad Barnd on 28 February, 2008 - 9:04am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 12 June, 2021 - 1:02pm

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