Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (1)

  • Lapsium Hendrix & Bartlett, 2025: 42.

Type

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: lapsus (slip, error) + -ium (noun suffux) (referring to the atypical location and shape of the processes on the periandrium and endosoma) (treated as masculine in the original publication)

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

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