genus
Cilidius Hendrix & Bartlett, 2025
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (1)
- Cilidius Hendrix & Bartlett, 2025: 37.
type species by original designation Cixius vicarius Walker, 1851
Type
Cixius vicarius Walker, 1851 type species by original designation of Cilidius Hendrix & Bartlett, 2025
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
Latin: cilia (eyelash, plural of cilium) + -idius (Greek: -ίδιον, diminutive suffix) (referring to the many small lash-like processes of the ventral eadeagal processes)
Nomenclature references (1)
- Hendrix, S.V. & Bartlett, C.R. (2025) Reclassification of the planthopper genus Melanoliarus Fennah, 1945 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), primarily north of Mexico, with notes on American Pentastirini. Zootaxa, 5619(1), 1–87. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5619.1.1
Stats
| Valid names | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| species | 2 | 0 | 16 | 18 | |