Pyrops intricatus

Pyrops intricatus is a species of lantern bug, an insect in the family Fulgoridae, found in Borneo.^[1] It was originally described in 1857 by Francis Walker as Hotinus intricatus.^[1][2]

Pyrops intricatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder:	Fulgoromorpha
Family:	Fulgoridae
Genus:	Pyrops
Species:	P. intricatus
Binomial name
Pyrops intricatus (Walker, 1857)
Synonyms[1]
Hotinus intricatus Walker, 1857 Fulgora intricata (Walker, 1857) Pyrops intricata (Walker, 1857) Fulgora stellata Butler, 1874

Description

Walker described the male of the species as follows:

Ferruginous. Rostrum slightly curved and ascending, sprinkled with white flecks, rounded and luteous at the tip, a little shorter than the body. Abdomen black; hind borders of the segments green. Tibiae and tarsi black. Fore wings black, with three testaceous interior bands, and with twelve exterior luteous spots; 3rd band interrupted; veins green, brighter on the interior part than on the exterior part, where they are differently arranged. Hind wings bright bluish-grecn, with very broad purplish-black borders. Length of the body without the rostrum 11 lines; of the wings 33 lines. This species is closely allied to H. maculatus, Oliv., but in the latter species the rostrum is wholly black and more slender at the tip; the fore wings have green spots and no bands, and the blue part of the hind wings extends more towards the borders in front and less so hindward.

Subspecies

Subspecies include:^[1]

• Pyrops intricatus albobasalis (Lallemand, 1960)
• Pyrops intricatus intricatus (Walker, 1857)