Eupteryx capreola Lindberg 1954

Eupteryx capreola Lindberg, 1954 Eupteryx capreola Lindberg, 1954: 240; Quartau and Fan��ony, 1988: 98; Aveiro and Aguin-Pombo, 2003 a, 2003 b Distribution. Endemic to Canary Islands and Madeira archipelago. MADEIRA: reported from many localities of southern and northern slopes (Lindberg, 1961; Quartau and Fan��ony, 1988). PORTO SANTO: one locality (Quartau and Fan��ony, 1988). Food plants. Pteridium aquilinum and herbaceous plants (Quartau and Fan��ony, 1988). Remarks. Quartau and Fan��ony (1988) suggested that Eupteryx capreola Lindberg, 1954 is probably an extreme form of Eupteryx filicum (Newman, 1853). More recent morphological studies and population dynamics analysis of populations on P. aquilinum also failed to separate this species from E. filicum (Aveiro and Aguin-Pombo, 2003 a, 2003 b). The status of this species needs to be confirmed.
Published as part of Aguin-Pombo, Dora & Freitas, Carlos, 2008, An annotated check list of the Cicadomorpha and Fulgoromorpha (Hemiptera) of the Madeira and Salvages archipelagos, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1762 on page 18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181963
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