genus
Muansa Distant, 1904
Descendants and synonyms
Nomenclature (3)
- Muansa Distant, 1904b: 295.
type species by original designation Platypleura clypealis Karsch, 1890
- Muanza [sic] Distant, 1904 in Dlabola, 1958: 64.
- Muanza [sic] Distant, 1904 (misspelling of Muansa Distant, 1904) in Dlabola, 1958a: 64.
Type
Platypleura clypealis Karsch, 1890 type species by original designation of Muansa Distant, 1904
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
after Muansa, a ritual instrument in Africa, made of a log of wood, hollowed out in a particular manner, so that when rubbed, it emits sounds resembling the roaring and belowing of wild animals
Nomenclature references (3)
- Distant, W.L. (1904b) Rhynchotal notes. -- XXVI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 7), 14, 293–303.
- Dlabola, J. (1958) First contribution to the knowledge of the Cicadidae from the Belgian Congo (Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 58, 62–74.
- Dlabola, J. (1958a) Records of leafhoppers from Czechoslovakia and south European countries (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Acta Faunistica Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 3(30), 7–15.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| species | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |