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HOMOPTERA 



26. GENUS METCALFIELLA GODING 



Metcalfiella Goding. Jouin. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XXXVII : 7 (1929). 

 Hoplophora (preoccupied) Germar, Re%-. Silb. I : 177 (i833). 

 Hoplophopion (nom. nov.) Kirkaldy, Ent. XXXIV : 5 (1901). 



Characters : The genus as now delimited includes those species of the subfamily which are 

 robust, triangular, with no pronotal horn, a very short shield-shaped posterior process, a narrow head 

 aiid with the hind wings showing three apical cells. The type species, pertusa Germar, which must be 

 consulted as a basis for generic characters, shows considerable variation in size and in configuration 

 of the pro-thorax but agrees entirely with the above named characters. The pronotum is usuall}- 

 veiy roughly sculptured with irregular swellings and coarse punctuation. The head is twiceas broad 

 as long with the ocelli laige and prominent and much nearer to each other than to the eyes. The 

 humeral angles are broadly auriculate. The edges of the pronotum are marked with red. The teg- 

 mina are hyaline with five apical and two discoidal cells. 



Type pertusa Germar. 



Geographical distribution : 



1. carinulata Schmidt, Stet. Ent. Zeit. LXVII : 364 (1906). 



2. cinerea Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 272. i3 (1846). 



3. concina Fowler, B. C. A. II : 41. 6 (1894). 



concisa (sic) Buckton, Mon. Memb. 249 (igoS). 



4. cributn Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 272. 10 (1846). 



5. disparipcs Fowler, B. C. A. II : 40. 4 (1894). 



6. erecta Schmidt, Stet. Ent. Zeit. LXVII : 364 (1906). 



nigromaculatum Schmidt, Stet. Ent. Zeit. LXVII : 364 (1906). 



7. gigantea Fairmaire, Kev. Memb. 269. i (1846). 



8. gloveri God\ng, Cat. Memb. N. A. 457. 199 (1894). 



9. hanschi Schmidt, Stet. Ent. Zeit. LXVII : 365 (1906) 



10. monogramma Germar, Rev. Silb. III : 242. 6 (i835). 



sanguinosa Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 270. 2 (1846). 

 apriformis Buckton, Mon. Memb. 95 (i903). 



11. obtusa Stal, Rio Jan. Hem. II : 25. 3 (1862). 



12. ohansiana Schmidt, Stet. Ent. Zeit. LXVII : 366 (1906). 



i3. pertusa Germar, Rev. Silb. III : 242. 5 (i835). — Pl. 2, flg. 24. 



porosa Walker, List Hom. B. M. 5i3. 16 (i85i). 



14. pubescens Buckton, Mon. Memb. 96 (1903). 



Colombia. 

 Mexico, Guatemala. 

 Panama. 



Colombia. 



Guatemala. 



Ecuador. 



Colombia, Ecuador. 



Unknown. 



Ecuador. 



Mexico, Guatemala. 



Brazil. 



Ecuador. 



Brazil. 



Colombia. 



Note : This genus has had a checkered nomenclatorial careerof misadventure. The characters on which Germar 

 described his genus Hoplopliora were so broad and indefinite that almost from the first many species were assigned to the 

 genus but were soon afterward removed to other genera such as Ochropepla, Platycolis and Pottiia which resulted in much 

 confusion. Then Kirkaldy (1901) called attention to the fact that the name « Hoplophora » was preoccupied and sought to 

 remedy the matter by proposing a new name « Hoplophorion ». This name was accepted and the catalogues and collections 

 were rearranged to conform. However, in 1929, Goding identified triangulum Germar, which had been designated by 

 Germar as the type of his genus Hoplophora. as congeneric with corrosa Fairmaire, the type of Ochropepla. Since Hoplophorion 

 necessarily included all species congeneric with corrosa, this left all of the other species which had been assigued to that 

 genus but which were not congeneric with corrosa without a name. Goding proposed the name « Metcalfiella » as a nomen 

 novum for such species and this name now obtains — it is hoped without further necessity for change. 



