Valid Names Results

Etropera Bhatti & Gullan, 1990 (Monophlebidae)

Nomenclatural History

• Etropera Bhatti & Gullan 1990: 882. Type species: Etropera papuensis Bhatti & Gullan by original designation . accepted valid name

Remarks

• Systematics: This genus differs from other Monophlebulini genera of New Guinea, in the genital opening of the female located on abdominal segments II and III and is associated with a marsupium (Bhatti & Gullan, 1990). Gavrilov-Zimin, 2018, resurrected the tribe Momophlebini (including Llaveiini (syn. nov.) within the family Margarodidae to place the genus Etropera in relation to other genera that he felt belonged in a subfamily of Monophlebinae (Afrodrosicha, Buchnericoccus, Corandesia, Etropera, Gueriniella, Laurencella, Llaveia, Monophleboides, Monophlebus, Neohodgsonius, Nietnera, Pseudaspidoproctus and Vrydagha)
• General Remarks: Definition and characters by Bhatti & Gullan (1990).

Keys

• Gavril2018: pp.158 ( Adult (F) ) [Genera of Monophlebini]
• Foldi1998a: pp.318-319 ( Adult (F) ) [Genera of the Monophlebulini: Monophlebinae]
• BhattiGu1990: pp.881 ( Adult (F) ) [Monophlebulini of the Monophlebinae, Margarodidae]

Associated References

• BenDov2005a: catalog, taxonomy, pp. 179
• BhattiGu1990: description, taxonomy, pp. 880-882
• Foldi2001a: taxonomy, pp. 201
• Gavril2018: key, morphology, taxonomy, pp. 153-159
• GullanSj2001: taxonomy, pp. 257-278

4 Species