Acalypta Westwood, 1840

Souma, Jun, 2025, A new species and two new records of the moss-feeding lace bug genus Acalypta (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Tingidae) from Hokkaido, northern Japan, with an illustrated key to the Japanese species of the genus, ZooKeys 1229, pp. 107-132 : 107-132

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1229.142344
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B40D174B-D534-4496-B3D0-71969AF5E948
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14932138
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scientific name	Acalypta Westwood, 1840
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Genus Acalypta Westwood, 1840 View in CoL

Acalypta Westwood, 1840: 121 View in CoL . Type species by original designation: Tingis carinata Panzer, 1806 .

Note.

For synonyms and detailed descriptions of the genus see Drake and Lattin (1963), Péricart (1978, 1983), and Péricart and Golub (1996).

Remarks.

The genus Acalypta , which is distributed only in the northern hemisphere, previously comprised 46 species (cf. Souma 2019, 2023 a), but in this study, the author describes a new species, A. alutacea sp. nov., increasing the number of species to 47. Among them, the following eight species have been known from Japan: A. cooleyi ; A. gracilis ; A. hirashimai ; A. marginata ; A. miyamotoi ; A. pallidicoronata ; A. sauteri ; and A. tsurugisana ( Yamada and Ishikawa 2016; Souma 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 a). However, with the description of A. alutacea sp. nov. and the first record of A. carinata from Japan, a total of ten Acalypta species are currently recognized.