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Genus

Leptosemia Matsumura, 1917

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (8)

  • Leptosemia Matsumura, 1917a: 196.

    type species by original designation Leptopsaltria sakaii Matsumura, 1913

  • Chosenosemia Doi, 1931a: 52.

    type species by original monotypy Chosenosemia souyoensis Doi, 1931

  • Chosenomia [sic] Doi, 1931 (misspelling of Chosenosemia Doi, 1931) in Ôuchi, 1938a: 84.
  • Leptosemia Matsumura, 1917 (classified as Leptosemiina Lee, 2013) in Lee & Emery, 2013a: 528.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Doi, H. (1931a) A new species of Cicadinae from Korea. Journal of the Chosen Natural History Society, 12, 52–53. [in Korean]
  • Kato, M. (1932a) Monograph of Cicadidae. Sanseido. Tokyo, 450 pp. [in Japanese]
  • Lee, Y.J. & Emery, D.L. (2013a) New genera and species of Leptopsaltriini (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae) from India and Tibet, with the descriptions of five new subtribes. Zoosystema, 35(4), 525–535.
  • Matsumura, S. (1917a) A list of the Japanese and Formosan Cicadidae, with descriptions of new species and genera. Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society, 6, 186–212.
  • Schmidt, E. (1932d) Verzeichnis der Cicaden des chinesischen Reiches. Peking Natural History Bulletin, 7, 117–133.
  • Ôuchi, Y. (1938a) Contributions ad cognitionems insectorum Asiae Orientalis. V. A preliminary note on some Chinese cicadas with two new genera. The Journal of the Shanghai Science Institute. Section III. Systematic and Morphological Biology (Systematics, Ecology, Anatomy, Histology and Embryology) and Pharmacognosy, 4, 75–111.

Type

type species by original designation of Leptosemia Matsumura, 1917

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Greek: λεπτός (thin, slender, delicate) + Semia

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1034
Species401620