LACE-BUG GENERA — DRAKE AND RUHOFF 3 



Acknowledgments 

 The authors express sincere thanks to the following: Dr. J. F. Gates 

 Clarke, U.S. National Museum, for reading the manuscript and mak- 

 ing numerous helpful suggestions; Mr. Curtis W. Sabrosky, U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture, for many helpful suggestions and advice 

 on nomenclature; Dr. Reece I. Sailer, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

 for help and encouragement; Dr. W. E. China for information on rare 

 species in the British Museum (Natural History) and especially for 

 notes on tingid types in the Linnaean Collection (Linnaean Society 

 London, Burlington House, Piccadilly) ; Mr. R. J. Izzard for supplying 

 notes on types and checking drawings made from types and other 

 specimens in the British Museum; Dr. S. L. Tuxen for lending the 

 type of Acanthia costata Fabricius in the Universitetets Zoologiske 

 Museum, Copenhagen; Mr. Arthur Smith of the British Museum, 

 Mrs. Richard Frocschner of Bozeman, Mont., and Mrs. Patricia 

 Hoguc of Alexandria, Va., for the drawings of insects; Mr. Theodore 

 B. RuhofT, U.S. National Museum, for preparation of maps and 

 circular graphs; and Miss Emily F. Bennett of the U.S. National 

 Museum library staff for her tireless efforts in locating and putting at 

 our disposal many of the technical papers required for reference. 



Family Tingidae Laporte 2 



Membranaceae Latreille, 1825, pp. 415, 422. 



Tingidites Laporte, 1833, p. 47. 



Membranacei Burmeister, 1835, p. 249 



Tingini Costa, 1838, p. 20. 



Tingidae Westwood, 1840, p. 120. — Costa, 1855, p. 293.— Lethierry and Severin, 



1896, p. 1.— Hurd, 1946, p. 437.— Monte, 1947, p. 2.— China, 1955, p. 261. 

 Tingides Amyot and Serville, 1843, pp. 285, 295. 

 Tingideae Fieber, 1844, pp. 20, 27. 

 Ductirostri Sahlberg, 1848, pp. 125, 127. 

 Tingiditae Spinola, 1850, p. 27. 



Tingididea Fieber, 1851, p. 9.— Flor, 1860, p. 317.— Vollenhoven, 1878, p. 265. 

 Tingitidea Costa, 1860, p. 6. 

 Tingididae Fieber, 1861, p. 26.— Oshanin, 1908, p. 395.— Van Duzee, 1916, p. 25; 



1917, p. 209. 

 Tingidida Stal, 1865, p. 25. 

 Tingina Stal, 1870, p. 671. 

 Tingitidae Stal, 1873, p. 115.— Uhler, 1886, p. 21.— Horvath, 1906c, p. 1; 1911, 



p. 14.— Oshanin, 1912, p. 42.— Drake and Poor, 1936a, p. 382.— China, 1943, 



p. 245. 



2 The 15th International Congress of Zoology (London, 1958) made provisos for the acceptance of family 

 names originally founded in the vernacular— such as Tingidites Laporte (1833) in French— providing such 

 usage has been generally accepted. Since Tingidae (for "Tingidites") meets the new code of Zoological 

 Nomenclature, we are accrediting "Tingidae" to Laporte, who was the first to use a family name for the 

 lace-bugs. It should be noted that all technical and vernacular names for the family always have been 

 based upon the generic name of Tingis Fabricius. 



