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Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) complectus (Ball, 1902)

Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) cinereus (Wolcott, 1921): (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) cinereus (Wolcott, 1921): (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) complectus (Ball, 1902): (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) cinereus (Wolcott, 1921): (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) complectus (Ball, 1902): (Observation).
Other: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) cinereus (Wolcott, 1921): (Observation).
Other: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) complectus (Ball, 1902): (Observation).
Other: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) complectus (Ball, 1902): (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) complectus (Ball, 1902): (Observation).
Head: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) cinereus (Wolcott, 1921): (Observation).
Head: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) complectus (Ball, 1902): (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) complectus (Ball, 1902): (Observation).
Stylus: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) complectus (Ball, 1902): (Observation).
Connective: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) complectus (Ball, 1902): (Observation).
Anal tube processes: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) complectus (Ball, 1902): (Observation).
Anal tube processes: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) complectus (Ball, 1902): (Observation).
Anal tube processes: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) complectus (Ball, 1902): (Observation).
Pygofer, ventral view: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) complectus (Ball, 1902): (Observation).
Aedeagus, dorsal view: !! display not done !! on Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) complectus (Ball, 1902): (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (8)

  • Oliarus complectus Ball, 1902c: 152. (valid in Caldwell & Martorell, 1951a: 138)

    Lectotype; female; UDCC_TCN 00101648; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); Haiti: Port-au-Prince, february

  • Oliarus complectus Ball, 1902 (subjective synonym of Cixius franciscanus Stål, 1859) in Van Duzee, 1917b: 309.
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  • Melanoliarus complectus (Ball, 1902) in Emeljanov, 2001a: 122.
  • Melanoliarus (Melanoliarus) complectus (Ball, 1902) in Myrie, Beekham, Baksh, Parris, Shah, Bartlett, Helmick, Hendrix & Bahder, 2023: 263.

Nomenclature references (10)

  • Ball, E.D. (1902c) Some new North American Fulgoridae. The Canadian Entomologist, 34(6), 147–157.
  • Ball, E.D. (1934e) The genus Oliarus and its allies in North America (Homoptera Fulgoriidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 24(6), 268–276.
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  • Caldwell, J.S. & Martorell, L.F. (1951a) Review of the auchenorynchous Homoptera of Puerto Rico. Part II. The Fulgoroidea except Kinnaridae. The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico, 34(2), 133–269. [1950]
  • Emeljanov, A.F. (2001a) The generic position of some Nearctic Pentastirini (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Cixiidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 9(1), 122. [2000]
  • Fennah, R.G. (1945f) The Cixiini of the Lesser Antilles (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 58, 133–146.
  • Hendrix, S.V. & Bartlett, C.R. (2025) Reclassification of the planthopper genus Melanoliarus Fennah, 1945 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), primarily north of Mexico, with notes on American Pentastirini. Zootaxa, 5619(1), 1–87. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5619.1.1
  • Mead, F.W. & Kramer, J.P. (1982a) Taxonomic study of the planthopper genus Oliarus in the United States (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Cixiidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 107, 381–569. [1981]
  • Myrie, W., Beekham, A., Baksh, A., Parris, J., Shah, F., Bartlett, C.R., Helmick, E.E., Hendrix, S.V. & Bahder, B.W. (2023) A new species of planthopper in the genus Melanoliarus (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea: Cixiidae) from coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) in Trinidad. Zootaxa, 5271(2), 253–270. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5271.2.3
  • Van Duzee, E.P. (1917b) Catalogue of the Hemiptera of America north of Mexico excepting the Aphididae, Coccidae and Aleurodidae. Technical Bulletin. University of California, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station. Entomology. Berkeley, 2, 1–902.
  • Wolcott, G.N. (1921a) The minor sugar-cane insects of Porto Rico. The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Puerto Rico, 5(11), 5–47.
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Latin: embrace; surround; include; seize

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